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Channel 19
‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Business
‘Clean trucks’ program at Washington ports gets extension to 2019 with registration
Announced last week, the Northwest Seaport Alliance offered owners as yet noncompliant with the requirement to utilize 2007 and later emissions-spec engines by April 1 an extension through to January 1 of next year, with a caveat.
February 13, 2018
Business
Who knew infrastructure would be so hard?
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but you can’t make it drink.” Let’s try that again: “We can’t keep stitching together the sow’s ear of an infrastructure and expect trillion-dollar silk purse outcomes.”
February 12, 2018
Business
Rhode Island to begin trucks-only toll construction this week
RIDOT says after the gantries are installed, its tolling contractor will begin an approximate one-month test of the system before the tolls go live to truckers.
February 12, 2018
Business
Milan, Boyd Bros. announce driver pay increases
Milan says it will pay experienced company drivers between 40 and 50 cents-per-mile, resulting in annual earnings of $60,320 to $73,320, based on 2,500 weekly miles. Boyd Bros. drivers, beginning Feb. 27, will receive a 2 cents-per-mile bump in pay.
February 12, 2018
Business
Uber to pay reported $245M to settle Google’s claims of stolen autonomous tech
In what became a highly publicized spat between the two companies, Google parent company Alphabet alleged that Uber stole thousands of documents from Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle developer Waymo. Though the terms of the deal remain confidential, Google has agreed to accept a fraction of a percent of ownership of Uber — worth a reported $245 million — to end its lawsuit against the ridesharing pioneer.
February 12, 2018
Business
Trump’s highway plan pushes for ramping up Interstate tolling, leaves funding up to states and private sector
Notably, the infrastructure package would repeal the current ban on Interstate tolling, allow for the commercialization of rest areas and alter the types of projects supported by federal funds. It’s unclear whether lawmakers intend to take up Trump’s proposal, which he touted at the State of the Union in late January.
February 12, 2018
Voices
More tolls or no tolls? Two-thirds of readers say no
Just a third of readers favored any liberalization whatsoever in the ability of government to toll interstate routes, whether current or new routes or expansion lanes.
February 12, 2018
Overdrive Radio
BigRigTravels.com turns 10: A talk with Stephen Michaels, long-haul proprietor
In this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, Stephen Michaels talks about his informal ambassadorship from the trucking world to the motoring public via his BigRigTravels.com live-feed webcam, which has yielded plenty individual dividends in motorist education and a turn in the perception of trucking.
February 9, 2018
Business
‘That’s what family does’: Driver Ronald Miller on the way back to health
The story of trucker Ronald Miller, left with partial paralysis after complications from flu back in December — he’s soon to be recuperating at home thanks in part to a couple of trucking-specific organizations.
February 9, 2018
Truck Stops
New Love’s opens in Waterloo, Iowa
The newest store, located at the intersection of U.S. Highways 63 and 20 in Waterloo, adds 65 truck parking spaces to the Love’s network.
February 9, 2018
Business
I-10 Eastbound near Phoenix to be closed this weekend
The Arizona DOT suggests taking alternate routes around the closure, including the Loop 101 west of I-17.
February 9, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Hot economy pushes flatbedders’ income way above their peers
ATBS averages for independents and dry van haulers in 2017 were close to $60,000, but reefer haulers averaged only $49,267.
February 8, 2018
Business
Some mottling in recently intense spot market demand maps, as seasonal declines continue
Spot rates in many parts of the country are still above the peak prices from 2017, but van rates are starting to climb down from extreme heights of recent weeks, reefer rates at an even faster pace. At once, this is not a typical February.
February 8, 2018
Business
Trucking rap sheet: Driver sentenced after fatal crash, illegal hazmat transport, med cert fraud, more
Action in four trucking-related crimes has recently been reported, including drug testing fraud, illegal transport of hazardous materials, a driver imprisoned following a fatal crash and a former DOT employee sentenced for bank fraud.
February 8, 2018
Channel 19
Mintu Pandher’s small fleet success in fuel hauling, truck-stop ownership
Small fleet owner Mintu Pandher, who came to the U.S. with his parents in 1999, followed the growth in oil drilling into independence as an owner-operator. His Akal Energy small fleet grew fairly quickly over several years with contracts with some fuel providers, running out of Laramie, Wyo.
February 8, 2018
Business
Former Arrow Trucking CEO who bilked millions from fleet ordered to serve remainder of prison term
He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and tax evasion in February 2015. Pielsticker’s gross abuse of company money contributed to the carrier’s demise in 2009, when the fleet abruptly shut down and left its trucks, drivers and freight stranded nationwide.
February 8, 2018
Business
Embark shows off autonomous tech in cross-country run
The 2,400-mile journey across I-10 began in Los Angeles last week and finished five days later in Jacksonville, Fla. A professional driver sat at the wheel of the retrofitted Peterbilt ready to assume control if necessary.
February 8, 2018
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