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Truckers and swine flu
News coverage of the spreading swine flu has pointed out the role of air travelers in spreading contagious disease. If youâre thinking that truckers, likewise being a highly mobile group, could help the swine flu bugs get around, youâre thinking like Dr. John McElligot, CEO of Professional Drivers Medical Depots.     He has put his [âŚ]
April 27, 2009
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Topics for coming webinars
Well over 100 owner-operators turned out Wednesday evening for Overdriveâs first webinar. Kevin Rutherford, our Dollars & Sense columnist and the host of ATBS Trucking Business & Beyond on Sirius XM, had a lot to say about âSurviving a difficult economy.â The overall reviews were overwhelmingly positive, and thatâs saying a lot, coming from a [âŚ]
April 24, 2009
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Landstar rides out the storm
When the economyâs in a tailspin, some observers like to speculate that the owner-operator is about to become an endangered species. Indeed, many contractors have fallen out in recent months, but thereâs no doubt about the potential for good operators to make money. The biggest owner-operator fleet, Landstar Systems, recently announced it earned $14 million [âŚ]
April 17, 2009
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Diesel: Cheaper than gasoline?
If youâre still smarting over last yearâs outrageous diesel prices, you can take a little comfort in a prediction from the U.S. Department of Energy. The feds forecast diesel will average $2.19 over 2009, and $2.51 in 2010. âThe expected continuing decline in diesel fuel consumption in the United States this year as well as [âŚ]
April 13, 2009
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Protecting your plastic
I doubt there are many Americans who havenât been stung by greedy credit card companiesâ sneaky tricks of raising interest rates for lame reasons to levels well over 20 percent in some cases. Owner-operators have more than their share of whelps. You often having to rely on credit while far from home. When the economyâs tough, [âŚ]
April 7, 2009
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Truck maker chiefs buck income trend
Daniel Ustian and Mark Piggott were among a handful of trucking-related CEOs included in the annual Wall Street Journal CEO compensation survey released today.  A photo of Ustian, head of Navistar International, made a front-page graphic due to his compensation rising almost five-fold, to $6.5 million, in 2008 â a year when average top [âŚ]
April 3, 2009
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Smile for the traffic camera
Traffic cameras are being used for more than red light monitoring these days. The Wall Street Journal gives an excellent update on how cities are increasingly using them to catch speeders and others by way of reading license plates.  The core app of red-light spying is still popular. And profitable. Tiny Schaumburg, Ill., put [âŚ]
March 31, 2009
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Hurray for homebuilding, retail and manufacturing
Martin Crutsinger of the Associated Press this week notes that five key economic areas show potential early signs of a turnaround, in spite of continuing signs of worsening problems.  Three of the five directly impact trucking: new homes, retail sales and durable goods. Each also was accompanied with a âreality checkâ reminding readers [âŚ]
March 27, 2009
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Dollars & Sense: Do you know your destination?
What if you pick up a load and, as you are scanning the bill of lading, you realize that it tells you exactly whatâs in the trailer but thereâŚ
March 25, 2009
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Schneider raises the bar on applicants
Schneider National is taking a variety of measures, some different than their competitorsâ, to cope with the downturn. Last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., the VP for driver recruiting, Michael Hinz, reviewed Schneiderâs latest developments with me and Linda Longton, the editorial chief for all our magazines here at Randall Reilly [âŚ]
March 23, 2009
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Economic news not all bad
Following are items that came our way in the last several days. Hey, itâs not all gloom and doom. Of the four, two anticipate positive change in trucking:  The current glut of trucking capacity wonât last too long, says Chief Economist Bob Costello of the American Trucking Associations. He notes that thousands of fleets [âŚ]
March 9, 2009
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Bright spots few and far between
Thereâs plenty of bad news from the economy-watchers at the Institute of Supply Management. As the headline for the February roundup of manufacturing stats says: âNew Orders, Production, Employment and Inventories Contracting.â  No surprise there. So for what itâs worth, here are a few shiny needles among the haystack:  Factory output is [âŚ]
March 5, 2009
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Following the billions
Youâve heard reports about the diverse types of projects that the federal bailouts are funding, in some cases how few jobs they will create, and how some of the expenditures are scheduled to take place years after the economy is likely to have rebounded.  Two websites can help you track this fiscal free-for-all. [âŚ]
March 2, 2009
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For the newly jobless, driving never looked so good
Recent trucking news has reported the reversal of the driver shortage, which had appeared to be, as Jesus said of the poor, with us forever. Fridayâs Wall Street Journal highlights how the competition for drivers is worse than ever partly because of people recently unemployed from car plants or construction and desperate for a paycheck. [âŚ]
February 27, 2009
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When boxcars come to stay
Railroads were advertising a lot during last yearâs period of rising fuel prices, touting their good cost-per-mile for moving a ton of commodities. Lest you think the super-heavy-duty engines are stealing your livelihood, consider this anecdotal evidence from the Wall Street Journal: Boxcars used to be a âfleeting sightâ in the town of New Castle, [âŚ]
February 24, 2009
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Planets aligning
Owner-operator Zak Hargraves, after a note pointing to a Thursday piece on emWired/em magazineâs site about a certain milk haulerâs biogas-powered trucks, has this blogger contemplating the cosmos for signs of a strange alignment. Seems that, the day I was posting about the tech magazineâs a href=âhttp://channel19.blogspot.com/2009/02/lonestar-gets-wired.htmlâpiece on the new International Lonestar/a, emWired/em was running [âŚ]
February 23, 2009
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The Loading Dock canceled
The Road Dog Trucking Radio Network, the newly combined Sirius Channel 147 and XM Channel 171, comes with an unfortunate cancellation â the long-running Loading Dock show with Mark Willis, one many of us here at a href=âhttp://www.overdrivedigital.com/âOverdrive/a and a href=âhttp://www.truckersnews.com/âTruckers News /aHQ (a href=âhttp://channel19.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaker-breaker.htmlâincluding this blogger/a) participated in over past months and years, will [âŚ]
February 20, 2009
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LoneStar gets âWiredâ
a href=âhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZ13dq5KaNI/AAAAAAAAANc/2yJ_UEB47V4/s1600-h/lonestar_truck.jpgâimg id=âBLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304527287726270674âł style=âFLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100pxâ alt=ââ src=âhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZ13dq5KaNI/AAAAAAAAANc/2yJ_UEB47V4/s200/lonestar_truck.jpgâ border=â0âł //aemWired/em magazineâs a href=âhttp://blog.wired.com/cars/âAutopia blog/a, a forum devoted (as it sounds) mostly to new technology in the realm of cars and other personal transport, a couple weeks back had a href=âhttp://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/how-a-couple-of.htmlâthis story/a about Internationalâs new LoneStar [âŚ]
February 19, 2009
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