November 19, 2008
- RoadWorthy Released
Select International, headquarter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently released RoadWorthy for use. RoadWorthy is an impartial assessment that helps in making informed and intelligent selection decisions when recruiting, selecting, hiring, and training new…
November 16, 2008
- Pilot Is To Offer Diesel Exhaust Fluid
Of interest to those with truck driving employment, Pilot Travel Centers has announced plans to become the first in its industry segment to carry diesel exhaust fluid, also known as urea, at its pumps. This component is needed to operate most…
November 14, 2008
- Wyoming Speed Limit Drop to 65 On Part of I-80
Beginning on October 15 and ending on April 15, a 65 miles-per-hour speed limit will be imposed on a stretch of Interstate 80 in Wyoming. The purpose of the wintertime measure, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation officials…
November 10, 2008
- Alternate to Cross Border Trucking
Jeffrey Stineman, the executive director of the National Truckers Association, is calling for help in enlisting thousands of US truckers to support a Free Commercial Trade Zone (FCTX) within the borders of the United States…
November 5, 2008
- Bottomed Out; ATAs Chairman
Bill Graves, a former two-term governor of Kansas and now chairman and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, was surprisingly blunt during his state…
November 3, 2008
- Freightliner; Slice of Trucker Life Blog
Freightliner Trucks has served three owner-operator truck drivers a Slice of Life–a 2009 Freightliner Cascadia to drive and evaluate for one year. For their part, the selected drivers will write about their real world OTR driver jobs in…
October 9, 2008
- Life on the Black Top
Only a small group of vehicles are visible at a stop roughly 15 miles or so on Bishop Rd. as workers are seen flattening hot, steaming asphalt and forming it onto a new surface. Just ahead of them, a second crew is filling humps on the surface of the road while a steamroller flattens asphalt… Read more
September 29, 2008
- Transportation Department out of Road Funds
According to Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, by the end of September, the highway trust fund should run out of funds. This, in turn, will delay payments normally made to states for construction and transportation projects. This fund is a federally backed… Read more
September 26, 2008
- OPEC Thinking About Cutting Oil Production
Since oil prices peaked at their high of $150 per barrel, they have taken a nosedive of 30% as of late. So, oil ministers from OPEC are debating whether or not to cut oil production in order to stabilize its price. While no major cutbacks are predicted, a move like this could not have been dreamt of… Read more
September 20, 2008
- No To Undisclosed Charge Backs and Markups
A landmark court ruling was recently issued which was seen by the OOIDA as a groundbreaking victory in the continual battle between big businesses interest and the interest of citizens. A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th circuit, decided that a trial court judge had in fact erred when handling an OOIDA case which had been brought against Landstar System Inc. With this ruling, it seems the judges from the Court of Appeals have made quite a bold statement about… Read more
September 15, 2008
- Trailer Prices Rise Because of Raw Materials Costs on Tires
Continental Tire North America Inc. and Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions have both decided that it was necessary to raise prices on all of their North American truck tire lines. This may have a negative impact on Class A truck driving jobs and CDL truck driving jobs as well. In fact, around the end of August, truckers who purchased their truck tires from Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions paid roughly 6% more than they ever did in the past few years… Read more
September 11, 2008
- The Next Generation Detroit Diesel DD13
Daimler’s truck division has taken the wraps off the Detroit Diesel DD13, the second of what will become a four-displacement family of the Heavy Duty Engine Platform (HDEP). The HDEP family will include 10.6-, 12.8-, 14.8- and 15.6-liter displacements eventually. The latter three are to have tentative availability in NAFTA countries, the two smaller ones are earmarked for Europe and Japan, while making all four available in North America is under discussion… Read more
August 24, 2008
- Is There A Truck Driver Shortage?
According to the American Trucking Association’s “US Truck Driver Shortage: Analysis and Forecasts” report, there is a nationwide shortage of 20,000 CDL long-haul truckers. If current demographics continue, the shortage will reach 111,000 by the year 2014… Read more
August 19, 2008
- Diesel Costs Destroying P.A.M.
Despite dismal second-quarter profits for Tonitown’s transporation services provider P.A.M, industry analysts see a turnaround for the trucking industry segment. P.A.M. showed a net income loss of $1.33 million in the second fiscal quarter, compared to a $2.19 million net gain in the same period last year… Read more
August 12, 2008
- Truckers Frustrated with FMCSA and Bush
Seeing its chance and capitalizing on the timing, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Washington DC, opportunely decided to announce it was extending the unpopular cross-border trucking pilot program for another two years. Most fortuitously for the Administration, Congress was out of town for its summer recess. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA)… Read more
August 8, 2008
- Fuel: Pounding The Trucking Industry
Even though the per-barrel price of crude oil has dropped to $124 as of this writing, American truckers still face a long and winding road ahead. That per-barrel crude oil figure means that diesel fuel costs $4.60 per gallon on average. The American Trucking Association (ATA) has estimated in the past that increasing the price of fuel a dime per gallon means that 1,000 fleets go out of business. That may have been a bit of inflated rhetoric even… Read more
