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 […]
The owner of a trucking company received the maximum sentence possible by a federal court in Missouri after pleading guilty last year for his role in a cargo theft scheme. Nu World Trucking owner Earl Stanley Nunn, of Memphis, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole, and ordered to pay more […]
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 via Bulk Loads The spending bill in Congress is not just about money. Tucked inside the bill are provisions to change regulations affecting everything from banking to the environment. One regulatory rollback has those concerned about truck safety especially upset. The regulation is part of a series of rules that spell out the […]
Shared from FMCSA (Federal Motor Credit Safety Administration) December 9, 2014 Final Rule Marks Obama Administration’s Largest Paperwork Reduction WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that, effective Dec. 18, 2014, professional truck drivers will no longer have to comply with a burdensome daily paperwork requirement, saving the trucking industry an estimated $1.7 […]
(as seen on Bulk Loads) Each year, nearly 1,000 Commercial Truck Drivers are killed in (truck) transportation related accidents and nearly 20,000 are injured and/or suffer emergency medical episodes. truckersfinalmile.org is the largest known Charity of it’s tpye and scope for Truck Drivers and their families in North America operating 24 hours a day from […]
(As seen on Bulk Loads) Truckload carriers began to add incremental capacity to meet shipping demand in the third quarter, pushing up the JOC Truckload Capacity Index by 1 percentage point to 82.7. Carriers that were solidly “overbooked” — with more available freight than tractor-trailers — in the quarter appear to be in the […]
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