Tag: international trucking

Channel 19
Strike! For .. lower freight rates?
Errant headline from a Colombian driver strike. Also: More on fuel surcharges: 3 in 4 readers collecting/charging fuel surcharges per mile report a base mpg between 5 and 7.
February 24, 2015
Click through the image for more of the reporting from Colombia.
Voices
POLL: Long-term impacts of U.S.-Mexico cross-border long-haul?
This poll follows the U.S. government’s recent announcement of an impending opening of long-haul cross-border opportunity for Mexican carriers? What will be the primary U.S. result, as you see it?
January 12, 2015
Channel 19
‘Cowboy Capitalists’ documentary features U.S. drivers running South Africa-Sudan
The documentary showcases American Ian Cox’s venture in hauling on the African continent, following securement of a U.N. contract to haul military-grade vehicles of various natures from South Africa and other points to struggling South Sudan.
October 11, 2014
“If you want to truck in Africa, you’ve gotta stand tall, you’ve gotta bring your A game, you’ve gotta fight for it. You’ve gotta know how to haggle, you’ve gotta know how to push, you’ve gotta know how to get a fair price.” –U.S. driver Ray Sines on his journey from South Africa to South Sudan as part of a United Nations contract convoy spearheaded by “Lorry Boys” American entrepreneur in Africa Ian Cox
Channel 19
File under: U.S. trucking rules!
Think you’ve got it bad from time to time? Consider this story of trucking in the Syrian uprising.
April 6, 2013
Syrian trucks backed up on bridge in Jordan
Channel 19
Low rates, high fuel ’round the world
U.S. trucking is by no means alone today with high-fuel-price, low-rate challenges.
August 13, 2012
Phillipines Truck
Channel 19
A look at a Mexican hauler’s business
A window into the life and hauling business of a third-generation independent Mexican trucker in 2012, full of extortion, graft, shakedown…
July 27, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Irish truckers report on South Korean truckers’ strike
An estimated 80 percent of the 380,000 total South Korean truckers were reported to have gone on strike “demanding the introduction of standard freight charges, a 30 percent rise in transportation fees and revised laws on labour rights,” reported the (you’re hearing right) Irish Trucker Magazine. News travels faster than on-highway rigs, eh? Platts reports […]
June 26, 2012
South Korean Truckers
Channel 19
Power of good roads?: Indian truckers’ savvy in the sleeper
News flash: According to IBN, a broadcasting network in India, that nation’s drivers have helped stemmed the tide of HIV and AIDS in the country after a process that is making a dent in old stereotypes about long-haul drivers there. “Truckers are savvy about safe sex,” screams the headline of a story posted to IBN’s […]
February 21, 2012
Channel 19
South African driver strike approaching closure after a violent week
Always a shame to see haulers around the world taking out their on-road frustrations on their peers. The news in South Africa this morning (photo of striking drivers by Lerato Maduna) is that, after a week of work stoppage by drivers’ unions in that nation that saw more than a little violence perpetrated on haulers […]
February 21, 2011
Southafrica
Channel 19
International ocean carriers, truckers, navigate trouble in Egypt
When I made a brief note about unrest brewing over rising food prices and the general employment situation in the North African states of Algeria and Tunisia in my post about the 2008 oil bubble (and current one, if we can consider it such — final word still out on that), little did I know […]
February 3, 2011
Egyptiantruckers
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