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Saturday round-up: Put a diaper on your dump; Video — Black Out military tribute rig at Rolling Thunder
The “Dumpster Diaper” company’s product prevents leakage from some dump bodies/trailers, and video of Chuck Timbrook and military veterans’ presentation of the colors ahead of the Rolling Thunder rally and ride two weekends back.
June 10, 2017
Business
Just his $2 worth
Bill Weaver’s got a unique plan to draw attention to truckers’ concerns: “Let’s all get with our banks and have them order us in $2 bills to spend on the road for expenses … as a form of protest to let the public know our plight.”
June 9, 2017
Business
Doft aims for greater freight transaction transparency
The start-up, launched last March, charges a $4.99 transaction fee to both shipper and carrier upon successful matching of loads via iOS shipper and driver apps.
June 9, 2017
Business
FMCSA proposes rules to ease new drivers’ transition into trucking
FMCSA issued a rule proposal to extend the expiration date of commercial learner’s permits from 180 days to a full year, as well as a proposal to allow current and former military members who drove a truck in the military to waive the CDL knowledge test.
June 9, 2017
Business
UPS asks FMCSA for reprieve on certain ELD provisions
The nation’s largest fleet wants to be able to install AOBRDs on new trucks after the ELD deadline, as well as allow its drivers to record their duty statuses differently in certain situations than the ELD mandate allows.
June 9, 2017
Truck Stops
Love’s opens first Montana location
Located along I-90 near Hardin, approximately 45 miles east of Billings, the new location features a Hardee’s restaurant, six diesel fuel islands, 70 truck parking spaces and more.
June 9, 2017
Business
Trump administration rescinds Obama-era memo interpreting owner-operators as employees
The July 2015 memo issued by David Weil, head of the Labor Department’s wage and hour division under President Obama, in effect instructed businesses and state labor agencies to view owner-operators as employees.
June 8, 2017
Business
Trucking rap sheet: Carrier smuggles weed from Mexico, two sentenced for defrauding shippers
An El Paso, Texas, trucking company owner was sentenced to more than two years in prison for his role in a 14-year marijuana smuggling operation. Additionally, a Florida man pleaded guilty to a CDL testing scheme.
June 8, 2017
Business
EFS launches card management app for fleet card users
EFS says the app gives drivers real-time card balances and recent transaction details, the ability to register an EFS check and more.
June 8, 2017
Business
Spot demand heating up to levels not seen since 2014
A 5:1 load-to-truck ratio on DAT Load Boards was seen for dry van freight last week. It’s the highest load-to-truck national average since March 2014, when demand skyrocketed with polar-vortex-related severe weather and led a big rates rally on the spot market that year.
June 8, 2017
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: HHG hauler Finn Murphy’s excellent memoir, ‘Bear in the air’ makes radio primetime
Hear Truckers News editor David Hollis’ podcast talk with household goods hauling owner-operator Finn Murphy about his new memoir, and: Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got ourselves a radio spot!
June 8, 2017
Business
Rand McNally’s annual truckers’ road atlas released
Some features in the atlas include a 22-page mileage directory with more than 40,000 truck-specific, city-to-city mileages; charts with state and provincial permit agency phone numbers and websites, low clearances, weigh stations and more.
June 8, 2017
Business
Trump stumps for plan to privatize U.S. highways
Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to adopt his proposal for clipping federal funding for U.S. highways in exchange for incentivizing private companies to pour $800 billion into U.S. roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
June 7, 2017
Business
Used truck volume to blame for Navistar’s $80M second quarter loss
Higher used truck losses, primarily resulting from a $60 million increase to the used truck reserve for the company’s legacy MaxxForce 13 used truck inventory, was the largest contributor to the company’s $80 million loss in the second quarter, it says.
June 7, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Interactive map of the intrastate ELD mandates as of June 2017
This interactive map shows information on progress all lower 48 states (and Alaska) have or haven’t made in adopting the federal electronic logging device regulations for intrastate haulers. Click through your state for more.
June 7, 2017
Business
2nd annual Take Pride Truck Show, June 9-10, 2017
“Please let me gush for a minute to thank and give a shout out to all our friends who helped. We are so honored to have been asked to help plan and organize this event. I am always in awe of how generous this industry is.”
June 7, 2017
Business
Drivewyze expanding bypass service into California
The company says installation is underway at 37 locations throughout the state where there are existing weigh-in-motion scales, and the service is expected to be fully operational within the next 60 days.
June 7, 2017
Channel 19
Tuesday round-up: Miracle on the road, and ‘retirements’ accelerate at Wes Memphis’ fleet in wake of e-log transition
A truck rolls safely with “no ELD, no ABS, no ERG, no SCR no DEF?” What gives? one reader cracks wise. And Wes Memphis returns to the blog with a suggestion that, should biz consultant Jeffrey Hayzlett’s rule of thirds apply to post-ELD mandate trucking, there will be “no lack of trucking jobs”…
June 6, 2017
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