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March 25, 2009

Schneider raises the bar on applicants

Schneider National is taking a variety of measures, some different than their competitors’, to cope with the downturn. Last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., the VP for driver recruiting, Michael Hinz, reviewed Schneider’s latest developments with me and Linda Longton, the editorial chief for all our magazines here at Randall Reilly […]

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, it’s not all gloom and doom. Of the four, two anticipate positive change in trucking: The current glut of trucking capacity won’t last too long, says Chief Economist Bob Costello of the American Trucking Associations. He notes that thousands of fleets […]

March 9, 2009

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Bright spots few and far between

There’s 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: “New Orders, Production, Employment and Inventories Contracting.” No surprise there. So for what it’s worth, here are a few shiny needles among the haystack: Factory output is […]

March 5, 2009

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Following the billions

You’ve 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. […]

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. Friday’s 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. […]

February 27, 2009

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When boxcars come to stay

Railroads were advertising a lot during last year’s 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 “fleeting sight” in the town of New Castle, […]

February 24, 2009

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Planets aligning

Owner-operator Zak Hargraves, after a note pointing to a Thursday piece on emWired/em magazine’s site about a certain milk hauler’s 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 magazine’s a href=”http://channel19.blogspot.com/2009/02/lonestar-gets-wired.html”piece on the new International Lonestar/a, emWired/em was running […]

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 — the long-running Loading Dock show with Mark Willis, one many of us here at a href=”http://www.overdrivedigital.com/”Overdrive/a and a href=”http://www.truckersnews.com/”Truckers News /aHQ (a href=”http://channel19.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaker-breaker.html”including this blogger/a) participated in over past months and years, will […]

February 20, 2009

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LoneStar gets ‘Wired’

a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZ13dq5KaNI/AAAAAAAAANc/2yJ_UEB47V4/s1600-h/lonestar_truck.jpg”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304527287726270674″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100px” alt=”” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZ13dq5KaNI/AAAAAAAAANc/2yJ_UEB47V4/s200/lonestar_truck.jpg” border=”0″ //aemWired/em magazine’s a href=”http://blog.wired.com/cars/”Autopia 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=”http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/how-a-couple-of.html”this story/a about International’s new LoneStar […]

February 19, 2009

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Some stimulus trickle-down for trucking

The $787 billion economic stimulus doesn’t offer much for leased operators other than hopes of better roads and, with federal aid to banks, easier credit. Some tax provisions, though, can benefit carriers, including small owner-operator independents, and to a lesser extent leased operators with an extension of capital expenditures deduction. The American Trucking Associations reports […]

February 18, 2009

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Trucks running on the runs

Is that manure I smell or is your DPF on the fritz?br /br /At the World Agricultural Fair last week, reps of Hilarides Dairy announced that the company is converting cow waste to fuel generators and, you guessed it, big trucks. Rob Hilarides, a fourth-generation dairy farmer and the firm’s owner, earned a $600,000 grant […]

February 18, 2009

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More striking drivers

a href=”http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8IIKbeFvf0RRiRCYKSmsyi3VoMg”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303777886097083874″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px” alt=”” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZrN4wRjjeI/AAAAAAAAANU/w_tJi9HF3WI/s200/mex.jpg” border=”0″ //aFollowing a large, somewhat successful fuel-price strike a href=”http://channel19.blogspot.com/2009/01/diesels-not-down-everywhere.html”by Indian truck drivers in January/a, yesterday an estimated 500,000 Mexican truck and bus drivers staged a one-day shutdown in an attempt to get the government to reduce […]

February 17, 2009

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Caterpillar jobs: Two accounts

In case you missed the news from last week’s foulup about Caterpillar and the economic recovery plan, you can see and hear the remarks yourself. President Obama, visiting Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill., claimed Cat CEO Jim Owens said “that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks […]

February 16, 2009

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Spanish-language record of the road

a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZl_SYui3fI/AAAAAAAAANM/hRGMYSyVM8g/s1600-h/mileson.bmp”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303409990057516530″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 110px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 110px” alt=”” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZl_SYui3fI/AAAAAAAAANM/hRGMYSyVM8g/s200/mileson.bmp” border=”0″ //aAvailable in MP3 format at Amazon.com, a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R64D40/ref=dm_sp_adp?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1234794879amp;sr=8-2″Back to the Road/a is the latest release of Spanish-language rock/country crooner George Mileson, released by Barcelona-based a href=”http://www.roadtriprecords.com/”Roadtrip Records/a. Two tracks on Mileson’s first album, emOne/em, were described […]

February 16, 2009

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For retail sales, a tiny reversal

The latest bit of bright news is Friday’s report that retail sales rose 1 percent in January over December. The Wall Street Journal says economists attribute the blip – following six consecutive months of falling retail sales – “to discounting and easier automobile-financing terms in January. Sales of cars, electronics and clothes all were up. […]

February 13, 2009

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Worth a thousand words…

a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZIEz6xCWFI/AAAAAAAAANE/yfL__ThKRMg/s1600-h/petry.jpg”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301305001363265618″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZIEz6xCWFI/AAAAAAAAANE/yfL__ThKRMg/s320/petry.jpg” border=”0″ //a divdivThe Photographer: Truckers News Photo Group is a href=”http://www.flickr.com/groups/truckersnews”here/a at the photo-sharing site Flickr, 55 members strong and growing. The above pic was featured in the magazine’s new online table of contents, showcasing various […]

February 13, 2009

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UN World Food Programme truckers’ near disaster

a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZIAso-IjeI/AAAAAAAAAM0/wsbOEcpFXeM/s1600-h/afghan.bmp”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301300478280764898″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 186px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px” alt=”” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SZIAso-IjeI/AAAAAAAAAM0/wsbOEcpFXeM/s200/afghan.bmp” border=”0″ //aThe Reliefweb.int site has a href=”http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7P4GQB?OpenDocument”this story/a about UN World Food Programme truckers and a near-disaster haul of winter supplies to villagers in Kufab in the Badakhshan region in northeast Afghanistan. A 14-truck convoy snaked up […]

February 11, 2009

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