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Business
Trucking rap sheet: âChameleon carriers,â inspector bribes, CDL schemes, more
A trucking company was sentenced to fines and probation after reincarnating, a Texas fleet owner pleaded guilty to bribing state troopers for clean inspections, a Washington state drug tester pleaded guilty to testing fraud, and CDL testers in California and Mississippi pleaded guilty to fraud.
January 17, 2018
Business
Kenworth offering OOIDA members $1,000 discount on truck purchases
The discount is available through a rebate program.
January 17, 2018
Business
Prepass, Oregon programs now interoperable for bypass
PrePass carriers that operate in Oregon can now allow their transponders to be enrolled in and utilize Oregonâs state-operated Green Light weigh station bypass system at 21 facilities throughout the state, with a waiver of Prepassâ data privacy policy.
January 17, 2018
Business
As more states move toward legalizing marijuana, it remains off limits for truckers
In one of the first laws of its kind, Maine has enacted rules that forbid the stateâs employers from firing employees or refusing job applicants for testing positive for marijuana use. Do these laws and broader marijuana legalization efforts have any bearing on truckingâs driver drug screening policies?
January 16, 2018
Overdrive Radio
âShould have planned betterâ only goes so far when road realities are at play
As so many owner-operators have noted in past, âplanning betterâ will only get you so far when it comes to ELDs, a 14-hour rule with rigid ends and little opportunity to extend it or stop it for mid-period rest. Owner-operator Mark Kirbyson, in this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, concurs wholeheartedly.
January 16, 2018
Overdrive Extra
âHighway Justiceâ pair tangles with dark side in trafficking tale
A serialized graphic short story, âHighway Justice,â tells the tale of the fictional Jake Brakefield, a trucker with a checkered background who gets caught up in a dangerous FBI operation to bust a human trafficking ring. The 10-part story will appear on Overdrive on Mondays and Thursdays for five weeks.
January 16, 2018
Business
Kenworth, Peterbilt recall trucks with certain Eaton, Paccar transmissions; Wabash, Walker recall trailers
More than 1,200 Kenworth and Peterbilt tractors are being recalled following the announcement last week of a recall from Eaton Cummins of certain automated manual transmissions. Additionally, Walker and Wabash are recalling approximately 75 trailers in separate recalls.
January 16, 2018
Business
Truck, trailer orders surge as trucking economy heats up
The bullish freight market in recent months â and the productivity restrictions brought by the electronic logging device mandate â have orders for new trucks and trailers surging. While those orders are a response to the tight truck market, they also indicate that freight movement will likely hold strong throughout the year, in line with forecasts that trucking capacity will be tested in the coming months.
January 16, 2018
Voices
âDonât work more for lessâ is reader Tom Hallâs message on hours, ELDs
âA specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will âhaul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'â âTom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.
January 16, 2018
Truck Stops
Pilot Flying J opens new location in Colorado, reopens another in Indiana
Pilot Flying J opened a new location in Lamar, Colorado, and reopened a recently remodeled location in Remington, Indiana.
January 16, 2018
Business
Que hora es your mom?
In which Wendy decides to learn Spanish. Again. And it all âmay or may not involve disappearing into the forests of Libre Union and becoming ranchers in the Yucatan.â
January 15, 2018
Voices
POLL: Less-than-upstanding dealings with freight brokers: What have you experienced most?
From a meager truck-ordered-not-used payment after a conveniently âcancelledâ load to late payment, no payment and having to file on a bond for hopes of payment, name your most-often-experienced frustration when dealing with freight brokers.
January 15, 2018
Business
Telemedicine, walk-in truck stop clinics can keep drivers rolling when sick
When youâre ill far from home, finding a local doc often isnât practical, and getting sicker doesnât cut it. Now there are better remedies for remote care.
January 15, 2018
Channel 19
âHereâs to causing a crisisâ: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, whoâs closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour ruleâs inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
January 12, 2018
Business
DOT forming policy to âremove barriersâ of autonomous vehicle deployment
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Wednesday announced the U.S. DOT is seeking public input on policies to hasten the deployment of self-driving trucks, buses and passenger cars, including vehicles that require no human input to operate.
January 12, 2018
Business
Will they go round in circles?
âA âsong that ainât got no melodyâ makes a pretty good analogy for my personal thoughts on the current plans for autonomous and self-driving commercial vehicles.â
January 12, 2018
Business
Trucker Path acquisition by global company Renren to bring navigation, more to the trip-planning app
Meet Renren CEO Joseph Chen, who drove truck for a time as a young man and says the Trucker Path acquisition is intended to take the app and its affiliated services âto the next level,â Chen says. âI think that the next 20 years will be most exciting for the trucking industry globally as we gradually get more technology into the industry.â
January 12, 2018
Business
Rates shot up again in December in record-tight market
In addition to posting multi-year highs (again), rates in all three major truckload segments saw gains of about 40 cents a mile compared to December 2016.
January 12, 2018
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