Article credit to Evan Lockridge on TruckingInfo While some may complain that truck freight levels haven’t taken off like a rocket since the end of the Great Recession, the fact is they have posted solid improvements, according to Jonathan Starks of the freight forecasting firm FTR. Starks was speaking Tuesday during the company’s “Virtual […]
Article credit to David Cullen at TruckingInfo Although it’s likely to land with a solid thud on Capitol Hill — given that there are just two months left until current surface-transportation legislation expires — the U.S. Department of Transportation officially announced its $478-billion, six-year transportation reauthorization proposal. Funding for this year’s version of the GROW America Act would in […]
Ohio Lawmakers scrapped a proposal to raise highway speed limit to 75 mph that was opposed by the trucking industry, according to a report from Cleveland.com. The proposed speed limit increase was originally part of the state’s transportation budget, but when a committee of Ohio House and Senate members convened to finalize the details of […]
The American Trucking Association has announced their agenda for 2015 which predictably lists HOS fixes and highway funding at the top of their priorities, but they also have one goal that’s a bit of a surprise. They want a lower minimum driver age, dropping the age to 18 years old. Currently, the federally mandated […]
Article credits to Denise Rondini at TruckingInfo.com Everybody talks about the importance of properly operating brakes, but, unfortunately, the talk doesn’t always translate into action. Last fall’s Brake Safety Week inspections conducted by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance resulted in 2,162, or 16.2%, of the 13,305 commercial vehicles examined in the U.S., being placed out of […]
Article credit to David Tanner at Land Line More than three-quarters of the people surveyed in a recent poll oppose attempts to increase truck sizes and weights on the nation’s highways. Another 9 percent said they were “unsure,” while just 15 percent said they would support an increase in truck size. The Coalition Against […]
Article credit to TruckingInfo.com Participants in a panel at the Omnitracs Outlook User Conference shared some of the ways they have used trucking technology to improve their CSA scores and overall safety performance. The conference was held in Dallas Feb. 8–11. Since its introduction in 2010, the Federal Motor Carriers Association’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability […]
With capacity tight and rates strong, it’s a good time to be in trucking, but there’s a threat on the horizon – 3D printing. By allowing manufacturers to simplify operations and move them closer to consumers, 3D printing “has substantial implications for both domestic and international freight businesses, particularly in reducing the importance of some […]
Dennis Whalen saw a need and created a product to fill the niche. Whalen grew up on a farm near Lyle, served in the Vietnam War and worked in the construction business for 25 years. When he retired, he started running the grain cart for a neighbor. They were having problems with underloading and overloading […]
Article from TheTrucker.com A coalition of businesses, labor groups and others is calling for a new statewide gas tax hike to pay for road and bridge repairs, which would be implemented in the form of a sales tax. The group calling itself Move MN proposed Thursday that the Legislature add a 6.5 percent sales tax […]
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