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Wabco intros budget parts line
Wabco, this week at the 2018 Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week, showcased its new budget spare parts brand, ProVia.
January 23, 2018
Business
Diesel tops $3 for first time in 3 years
In the most recent update for the week ending Jan. 22, prices held steady with the nation’s average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel falling three-tenths of a cent to $3.025. The last time prices topped the $3 per gallon mark was the week ending Jan. 12, 2015.
January 22, 2018
Business
Compilation of four-wheelers brake checking truckers
A four-minute mash-up of highway mishaps around brake checking drivers, documented by truckers’ dashcams.
January 22, 2018
Business
Illinois man charged with attempted murder after firing gun at truckers
The warrant states 60-year-old college professor Charles S. Johnston told police he had become “enraged or obsessed over a family that was killed in an accident with a semi and that the motive behind his actions was to harm a truck driver or truck drivers in retaliation.”
January 22, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: What do state laws on marijuana mean for truckers?
States laws on marijuana use increasingly at odds with federal law. Some states, like Maine, have forbid employers from firing workers for testing positive for marijuana. Do these laws have any bearing on trucking and, specifically, drivers? Listen here to see what trucking industry reps say on the issue.
January 22, 2018
Business
We’ve Benatar over this, time and again
“Treat employees like they make a difference, and they will.” Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS Institute … Wendy: “Hey y’all, guess what? It’s not just trucking.” There’s a “nurse shortage” sort of like there’s a “driver shortage,” too …
January 22, 2018
Business
Trucker Tools’ predictive load feature integrates with TMS
Driver smartphone app Trucker Tools, which also provides load tracking and freight-matching features, integrated its Smart Capacity freight-match tool with the MercuryGate Transportation Management Software system, a cloud-based TMS.
January 22, 2018
Voices
POLL: What’s your take on Trump’s first year in office?
With Donald Trump’s first year as President in the books — and with a brief government shutdown nearing an end — what’s your take on the first year? Good, bad, indifferent? Weigh in here.
January 22, 2018
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new store in Arkansas
The new store is the company’s third along I-49 and its 12th in the state. It offers truckers 55 truck parking spaces, a Love’s Truck Tire Care center, three showers, Chester’s Chicken and Subway restaurants, laundry facilities and more.
January 22, 2018
Channel 19
Grassroots efforts continue around ELD mandate, hours of service flexibility
Wednesday, January 17, a group of truckers took a meeting with United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to press concerns over the Department of Transportation’s electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.
January 19, 2018
Business
Things I’ve learned in 50 years
“I’ve done some really dumb things, and I’m not ashamed to admit I really believed Pilot Flying J hauled their coffee around in tankers when I first came out on the road with George.” … Join us in wishing Wendy a happy early 50th!
January 19, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Tax overhaul expands bonus depreciation to used equipment
The tax overhaul enacted in December now allows so-called bonus depreciation for used truck purchases. But the law also requires buyers to expense the assets in the year they bought them, rather than taking depreciation benefits over a multi-year period.
January 19, 2018
Business
Michigan, Arizona prepping for interstate construction projects on I-94, I-10
Shoulder closures and some single lane closures will take place on weekdays on I-94 in Michigan February through May, followed by a construction project through fall 2019. I-10 will be closed in Arizona near Phoenix on some weekends beginning Jan. 26.
January 19, 2018
Business
Used truck prices tumbled 23 percent in 2017
A tractor that sold for $75,000 Jan. 1, 2017 would have sold for $57,900 on Dec 31, 2017, according to data from J.D. Power and Associates.
January 19, 2018
Business
Most Louisiana interstates reopened after days of shutdowns from ice storm
All Louisiana interstates are back up and running except for I-110 around Baton Rouge. I-110 southbound remains closed in its entirety between U.S. 61 and I-10, and the northbound side is closed between exit 6 and U.S. 61.
January 19, 2018
Business
TCA names 18 safest fleets for 2017
The fleets are now eligible for one of two grand prizes – one for carriers with a total annual mileage of less than 25 million miles, and one for carriers with more than 25 million miles per year.
January 18, 2018
Channel 19
How do you prevent cracks in your convex mirrors?
Cold-weather issues, take one. Enquiring minds among readers want to know: “I have had my convex mirrors crack in the wintertime more than once and was wondering if I am the only one and what people have found to stop it.”
January 18, 2018
Business
Conditions ripe for driver pay hikes as tight market, tax cuts could force carriers’ hand
The corporate tax cut in the tax reform package delivers “real money,” in the words of one FTR analyst, “so it’s a real opportunity” for driver pay growth. “I’d expect drivers will say … ‘OK, corporate America, this is what you asked for. Now it’s time to give back.'”
January 18, 2018
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