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Electronic Logging Devices
Dedicated ELD from Coretex self-certified
The Coretext ELD is “compatible with all vehicle types and has been written from the ground up by Coretex engineers,” the company says. The platform uses the company’s existing range of in-vehicle hardware for active fleet management.
September 20, 2017
Business
Love’s reaches agreement to purchase Speedco
The acquisition will add 52 trucking service and lube locations to the Love’s network, bringing the number of Love’s-operated tire and lube facilities to 323 nationwide.
September 19, 2017
Business
Senate passes bill that would ban human trafficking convicts from holding CDL
The Senate also passed the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act that would establish the position of human trafficking prevention coordinator within the U.S. DOT to coordinate trafficking prevention efforts across DOT agencies.
September 19, 2017
Custom Rigs
Working-cabover work in progress: Owner-operator James Ryan’s 1989 Peterbilt 362
The Cummins Big Cam 4-powered 1989 Peterbilt 362 double-bunk cabover you’ll see in this video has been in owner-operator James Ryan’s family for years before he convinced his father, Art Nelson, to sell him the unit. Today, he hauls containers from the Port of Savannah north to Charlotte with it.
September 19, 2017
Business
‘Predictive’ freight matching from Trucker Tools
Available to carriers at no cost, Smart Capacity optimally recommends loads for drivers and assets within a carrier’s network of 3PL/broker partners to improve visibility and operational efficiency.
September 19, 2017
Business
FMCSA’s med board to review waiver protocol for drivers on anti-seizure medication
The meeting will discuss the current requirements for individual's on anti-seizure medications.
September 18, 2017
Business
Driver turnover rate soared in second quarter, ATA reports
“We predicted that last year’s period of relatively low and stable turnover could be short-lived if the freight economy recovered from 2016’s freight recession. It appears those predictions were correct and we may be seeing the beginnings of a significant tightening of the driver market and acceleration of the driver shortage,” says ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello.
September 18, 2017
Business
YRC becomes second mega-fleet to request exemption from certain ELD mandate provisions
The nation’s fifth-largest fleet is asking FMCSA to allow it to phase in new trucks with AOBRDs after the cutoff date of Dec. 18, 2017, to replace trucks that had AOBRDs. The exemption request also seeks a reprieve to allow drivers to record their duty statuses differently in certain situations than the mandate allows.
September 18, 2017
Business
Comdata brings AscendTMS to carriers in MyFleet program
Comdata announced a preferred partnership with InMotion Global, Inc. to bring the free AscendTMS web-based transportation management system (TMS) software to carriers, fleets and freight brokers through its Comdata MyFleet program.
September 18, 2017
Truck Stops
Pilot Flying J opens new California location
The new store, located at exit 465 (Roth Road), features nine diesel lanes, PJ Fresh Pizza and Cinnabon restaurants, Western Union services and laundry facilities.
September 18, 2017
Business
Trucker recognized for helping fellow driver hit by vehicle
Bison Transport driver Ajay Toor stopped his rig to help a fellow trucker who had been hit by a car.
September 18, 2017
Business
I’ll have the 4-inch laceration with catnip, please
How do you get a cat in a backpack carrier? And: Like everything else that looks interesting along the way, we never have time to stop at a Cat Coffee House. That’s the curse of commercial highway travel — we’ve been everywhere, but only for however long it takes us to go through at the posted speed limit.
September 18, 2017
Overdrive Radio
ELD mandate protest efforts set to stage October 3
Podcast: Two unaffiliated groups — Tony Justice and company’s ELD or Me, and the Texas-headquartered Operation Black and Blue — share details for ELD mandate protests coalescing around a beginning date of October 3.
September 16, 2017
Business
Watch: Tony Justice’s ‘Stars, Stripes and White Lines’ video released
Produced and shot by Big Rig Videos videographer Chris Fiffie, the video in part utilizes footage captured during a convoy of military veteran truck drivers that followed the 2016 Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, Mo., at 4 State Trucks.
September 15, 2017
Business
Giving a little trucker love back to Texas
Chronicling a haul of donated hay to Southeastern Texas in the wake of Hurrican Harvey, under the power of driver Jerry Novak’s Ohio-based rig: “This isn’t just the way Americans are supposed to act, it’s the way human beings are supposed to act, and it’s uplifting and humbling to do a story about it.”
September 15, 2017
Business
Fast-changing economy could upend trucking, analyst says
The U.S. economy is in the midst of major shifts in the way consumers buy and receive goods, and some of the largest segments of the economy — such as prominent freight-producing sectors like the food and automobile industries — will be upended in the coming decades, said forecasters at the FTR Conference.
September 15, 2017
Business
Mack announces updates to Pinnacle, Granite trucks
Mack may have debuted a new tractor this week, but that doesn’t mean existing models are being overlooked.
September 15, 2017
Business
Time to buy: Popular specs for used trucks
The used truck surplus generally means lower prices, but buyers might find they have to pay up for their preferences in model or specs.
September 15, 2017
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Lawsuit seeks to halt FMCSA's non-domiciled CDL final rule
That latest filing in the case of owner-operator Jorge Rivera Lujan v. the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asks for an emergency stay of the government's final rule restricting non-domiciled CDL eligibility, pending judicial review. Here access the full text of the petition for stay, summary of the arguments. FMCSA's rule will be effective March 16 if the court declines to act.
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