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Business
Rates, volumes held steady into Christmas week
Meanwhile, demand indicators in national average van and flatbed load-to-truck ratios declined, while the reefer ratio increased, compared to the previous week, reflecting demand to move fresh produce and temperature-controlled goods ahead of the Christmas holiday.
December 28, 2018
Business
Trucking rap sheet: CDL testing scheme, HHG moving scheme, insurance fraud
Action in three trucking-related crimes – including a CDL testing scheme, household goods moving scheme and insurance fraud – has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General and Florida’s Chief Financial Officer.
December 27, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
The no-subscription-fee ELD going out of service Jan. 31
The Zed ELD’s shuttering comes just several months after the company touted its Zed Connect platform and refinements to its ELD app at the Great American Trucking Show in August.
December 27, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
VDO RoadLog ELD software for Apple machines
Continental announced the VDO RoadLog Electronic Logging Device’s “Office Solo” software is now compatible with Apple computers and laptops.
December 27, 2018
Pride & Polish
The ’61 needlenose and ’74 cabover Petes — and a pair of 389 gliders — of Mel-Rick Inc.
At GBATS, Rick Bestwick and company — owners of the Mel-Rick Inc. 10-truck hopper and step-deck pulling fleet of Sabetha, Kan. — showed two classics and two hardworking gliders. Catch more about them, and the Mel-Rick business incorporated since the early 1980s, in this new video.
December 27, 2018
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 there’s a long way to go before it’s common for a big chunk of the industry.
December 26, 2018
Channel 19
Roundup: ‘Santa’s Secret Helpers’ uncovered, ‘Night before Christmas’ two days late, and extended drains: Who do you use for oil analysis?
Trucking’s biggest media fan, Robb Mariani, confirms the ‘Secret Santa Force’ rolls on 18, Sierra Sugar’s contribution to the truck-stop ‘Night Before Christmas’ 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/House’s $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, what’s 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 “30 acts of kindness for their employees, community and industry.”
December 24, 2018
Business
Kenworth makes W990 available for order
Kenworth’s 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 drivers’ 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
Love’s 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 Weaver’s “How the Truckers Saved Christmas” 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 we’ve seen some eventful years for the company over the last decade
December 21, 2018
Truck Stops
California city council votes to OK planning board’s 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 agency’s new — and pressing — move to propose changes to hours of service regulations has rendered the study moot, sources said.
December 20, 2018
Pride & Polish
1,000,000-mile overhaul of ‘High Maintenance’ 379’s power plant, other PM fringe benefits
One such benefit — when his oil provider found out he’d gone a million without needing an overhaul, techs tore down owner-op Dave Marti’s C15 in the course of filming a video about it, all on the dime of a party other than Marti. “Hindsight to this story, though,” he says, is “we probably could have gone a long way further without opening it up,” and without engine issues.
December 20, 2018
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