Are you a Trucker looking for love? Does the lonesome highway make you long for a soul mate? Are you ready to join the convoy of love?
A major television production company is currently searching for dynamic and unique individuals in the trucking world for a new reality dating show. We want to explore the difficulties of balancing finding a mate and life on the open road.
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What’s in Store for Trucking in 2012
If you didn’t know the Federal government does not operate on a calendar year, yet Congress and certain federal regulatory agencies often make an end-of the year push to enact pending laws and regulations, and this year was no different. For example, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published the Unified Registration System, Cell Phone ban and the Hours-of-Service rules in the last days of December 2011.
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Gas Prices Hit Trucking
If you've felt the pain of filling up your car lately - gassing up a tractor trailer can make you feel helpless.
"Basically, just suck it up," said Bob McKay, Fleet Director at Willow Run Foods.
Visiting Las Vegas today, President Obama officially opened the country's first natural gas trucking corridor, a stretch linking California's Long Beach with Utah's Salt Lake City, along which properly equipped medium- and heavy-duty trucks can tank up on compressed natural gas. CNG-fueled buses will be familiar to passengers in cities from Delhi to New York. But using CNG as the main fuel for trucks is a relatively new idea, first given a high-profile pitch several years ago by famed oilman T. Boone Pickens in his "Pickens plan."
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Limitations on the 34-hour restart, mandatory breaks, and changes to the definition of on-duty time highlight the new version of the hours-of-service regulations released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on December 22, 2011.
Read MoreNew Commercial Driver’s License Changes 1/30/2012
The New Year is also upon us. Everyone should be getting ready for the new Commercial Driver’s License regulations (383.71) that go into in January. I strongly suggest that everyone and I really mean everyone, drivers, dispatchers, recruiters, etc read the new regulations as there are some very interesting changes.
Read MoreVehicle Maintenance under CSA
The new Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) Methodology published in August 2010 reduced the number of violations appearing on the severity weighting tables substantially reducing the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) score. But don’t let fewer violations appearing on the tables give you a false sense of security; there is still ample opportunity to leave a roadside inspection with at least one violation.
Read MoreEOBR Rule Rejected by Court
A federal appeals court has thrown out the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s 2010 rule requiring electronic onboard recorders. The ruling is almost certain to delay the June 2012 mandate for those carriers that have a significant number of hours-of-service violations.
Read MoreInternational agreements continue to erode U.S. sovereignty
Within the past 30 days, two milestones were reached in the erosion of United States sovereignty and almost no one noticed. On July 6, an accord between the United States and Mexico was announced that opened American highways to Mexico’s trucking companies. A few days later, both countries were informed that the World Trade Organization had ruled against U.S. laws regarding labeling of imported foods.
NHTSA seeking comments on heavy truck fuel-efficiency standards
With a pair of public hearing in the books, the trucking industry can now officially submit comments on the proposed rulemaking that seeks to create fuel mileage and emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
As a trucking accident injury trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I sometimes run across truck drivers about whom I wonder how they ever passed a medical exam. In a case last year, when I dug into records and took depositions, I found that a truck driver with extensive heart disease had open heart surgery. Soon thereafter he returned to work driving an 18 wheeler over the road.
Commercial truck drivers, already under pressure from declining consumer demand and rising fuel prices, beginning today must contend with a federal program that measures a driver’s safety record and offers it to potential employers.
Read MoreTrucking group seeks higher weight limit on U.S. roads
The American Trucking Association is working to increase maximum weight loads for trucks on the nation's interstate highways.
Monday June 28th, 2010, the trucking community stands in unison together for their support of Jason’s Law
With all the issues existing within the trucking industry today, none have brought together a more unified atmosphere among truckers, bloggers, organizations, social media participants, and radio shows, than the desire to see the much needed bill, Jason’s Law (H.R. 2156 and S971) passed into law.
Read MoreNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Can't find a job? Maybe it's time to take your search on the road.
The U.S. trucking industry will need to hire about 200,000 drivers by the end of this year, and will need to add another 200,000 by the end of 2011, according to the state of logistics report from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
Read MoreContract Driver or Employee? Answer In Nose Of Sniffer
The long-established practice of licensed motor carriers hiring owner-operators to haul containers in and out of the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach is under fire at the federal, state and local levels of government, as well as from organized labor. Members of the House Transportation Subcommittee on Highways and Transit called for a Congressional investigation of driver status following a May 5 hearing on the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports' clean truck programs.
LaHood: Cross-border trucking announcement coming ‘soon’
In the days leading up to Mexico President Felipe Calderón’s visit to the U.S., the administration made it increasingly clear that another cross-border trucking program with Mexico would be announced “soon.”
April 14 (Bloomberg) -- The amount of diesel fuel bought using credit cards at U.S. truck stops increased in March to the highest level in more than a year, indicating the recovery is broadening beyond manufacturing.
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The Mid-America Trucking Show — Louisville's largest annual trade show — is staying in the city through at least 2020.
The new technology makes many tasks easier. If the truck industry to revolutionize ready for new technologies, as well? Some drivers can not wait for the truck industry to catch up with other sectors in terms of technology, but not everyone feels the same way.
Read MoreTrucking Industry Optimistic About the Year Ahead
Carriers and industry vendors have indicated that things are improving, with capacity tightening in February, according to the observations of Transport Capital Partners at the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas last week.
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A group representing independent truck drivers accused Mexico of “economic bullying” while arguing against allowing Mexican truckers to operate in the U.S.
Read MoreMore Business or failed Competitors?
After enduring a "bad" 2008 and "horrible" 2009, trucking industry executives are cautiously optimistic that a recovery has begun.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Transportation has released a sample bill for state legislatures to use when prohibiting texting while driving.
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Bankruptcies in the U.S. trucking industry are expected to escalate this year as higher fuel prices and excess capacity squeeze margins further and lenders start to tighten their noose on the sector.
Read MoreTrucking features a long history. Truck driving has generated a huge market for products and support in this nation. The earliest big increase occured because of World War II. America required numerous commodities shipped around in America and and with regard to that matter, the world.
Read MoreThe trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives.
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The South Carolina Truck Show will be held June 25-26, 2010, at the Faith Assembly of God Church in Charleston, S.C.
A new index, which projects the state of the U.S. economy based on how much diesel fuel heavy trucks are using, indicates that the economy cooled off a little in January.
The (ATA) recently told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that the trucking industry has seen a large decline in the truck-involved fatality rate since the current hours of service (HOS) rules took effect, citing a 25% drop in the rate of persons injured in large truck crashes since the rules took effect in 2005.
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