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Business
The uphill slog to 10 mpg
Ten miles per gallon is considered by many as the event horizon for trucking fuel efficiency, but a recent report suggests thereâs a long way to go before itâs common for a big chunk of the industry.
December 26, 2018
Channel 19
Roundup: âSantaâs Secret Helpersâ uncovered, âNight before Christmasâ two days late, and extended drains: Who do you use for oil analysis?
Truckingâs biggest media fan, Robb Mariani, confirms the âSecret Santa Forceâ rolls on 18, Sierra Sugarâs contribution to the truck-stop âNight Before Christmasâ canon, and a reader asks: Who do you use for oil analysis? And why?
December 26, 2018
Business
I-59/20 in downtown Birmingham to close for 14 months
While through-trucks are not supposed to take I-59/20 through downtown Birmingham, the closure will have an impact on I-459 and I-65, as they will be used as detours to get around the city.
December 26, 2018
Voices
Partial government shutdown: Is the President/Houseâs $5 billion border-wall demand worth the shutdown result?
With the technical fifth day of a partial federal government shutdown under way (not the bulk of the DOT, which remains open through budgetary-led shutdowns typically), led by a demand for $5 billion in border wall funding, whatâs your view: Is such funding demand worth the cost?
December 26, 2018
Business
Alabama Motor Express marking 30th anniversary with charitable donations, wage increases
Alabama Motor Express, a 250-truck family-owned fleet based in Ashford, Alabama, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To celebrate the milestone, the company has said it is performing â30 acts of kindness for their employees, community and industry.â
December 24, 2018
Business
Kenworth makes W990 available for order
Kenworthâs new W990 tractor, unveiled in September, is now available for order, the company announced last week.
December 23, 2018
Business
Carriers, drivers exempt from California break laws, FMCSA rules
In a significant decision that rebukes a major 2014 ruling by a federal court, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has said that carriers do not have to comply with California laws requiring employers to provide workers with regular meal breaks and paid rest breaks.
December 21, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Delivering Christmas with nonprofit driversâ group
Turns out, just when you begin to believe all the good hands are mostly gone, you again run across the salt of the earth, who, from the cabs of their trucks, write another chapter in the Christmas story.
December 21, 2018
Truck Stops
Loveâs adds new store in North Carolina, reopens one in Arkansas
The North Carolina store, located in Reidsville at exit 150 off of Highway 29, offers 109 truck parking spaces. The Arkansas location, in North Little Rock, is at exit 161 off of I-40. It reopened this week after major renovations.
December 21, 2018
Channel 19
The year the DOT shut down Santa and the truckers saved Christmas
Trucker-songwriter Bill Weaverâs âHow the Truckers Saved Christmasâ gets the Texomatic Pictures video treatment. And: A hopeful note enforcement will be light for Claus Trucking up North this weekend and into Monday. Lord knows weâve seen some eventful years for the company over the last decade
December 21, 2018
Truck Stops
California city council votes to OK planning boardâs approval for new truck stop
Both interests in support of the stop and those against showed up at Jurupa Valley, Calif., city hall Thursday evening for a council meeting that extended into the wee hours Friday. The result, if all goes according to plan, will be near 200 parking spaces, among other amenities, at State Route 60 and Riverside Drive there.
December 21, 2018
Hours of Service
FMCSA scraps split-sleeper berth study amid press for hours reforms
FMCSA has canceled a study meant to gauge the safety aspects of allowing truck drivers to split their on- and off-duty time into segments. The agencyâs new â and pressing â move to propose changes to hours of service regulations has rendered the study moot, sources said.
December 20, 2018
Custom Rigs
1,000,000-mile overhaul of âHigh Maintenanceâ 379âs power plant, other PM fringe benefits
One such benefit â when his oil provider found out heâd gone a million without needing an overhaul, techs tore down owner-op Dave Martiâs C15 in the course of filming a video about it, all on the dime of a party other than Marti. âHindsight to this story, though,â he says, is âwe probably could have gone a long way further without opening it up,â and without engine issues.
December 20, 2018
Business
FMCSA to allow states to issue one-year commercial learnerâs permits
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will soon allow states to issue commercial learnerâs permits for up to one year instead of the current six-month limit with the option to renew the permit for another six months.
December 20, 2018
Channel 19
Truckers are classified as âunskilled laborâ? Nope
A new video from TruckerNation effectively debunks this oft-repeated myth. What it doesnât do is highlight whatâs typically happened in my own experience when those invoking the myth are asked for some clarification â what follows, often, is an invocation of the reality of the exemption from overtime-pay protections for DOT-regulated motor carrier employee drivers.
December 19, 2018
Business
FMCSA issues shutdown order to driver cited for myriad of violations, multiple DUI arrests
Arkansas-licensed driver Jeffrey Scott Mitchell was issued an imminent hazard out-of-service order on Dec. 14, forbidding him to operate a commercial motor vehicle. In five separate roadside inspections, he was arrested for being either under the influence or in possession of a Schedule I drug.
December 19, 2018
Business
Record number of truckers killed in workplace fatalities in 2017
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the 840 truck drivers killed on the job in 2017 represented 77 percent of the 1,084 motor vehicle operators killed on the job last year and is the highest value for truckers since it began tracking occupational statistics in 2003.
December 19, 2018
Business
âNudging versus naggingâ: A central consideration in growing sophistication of video-based coaching and monitoring
New-gen video systems attempt to avoid what has been something of a prevailing sentiment among truckers to date about all manner of active-feedback-type systems, whether utilizing video machine vision or not: That such accountrements piled on top of in-cab and basic truck technology might be a nuisance at best.
December 19, 2018
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