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Combating the theft problem with information

CargoNet offers members a reporting service which ensures theft info is distributed to a network of more than 125,000 officers in more than 9,000 jurisdictions around the country, including the several regional cargo theft task forces that exist.

January 13, 2017

Click here to learn more about CargoNet.

Overhaul freight marketplace, SoftServe partner on BioLock

At the intersection of so-called “Internet of Things” technology and cargo theft prevention, BioLock provides an electrocardiogram biosensor analysis system to proactively monitor the health of drivers and prevent vehicle theft.

December 1, 2016

On SoftServe’s website, the company details its work on prototyping the BioLock in a vehicle steering wheel, including this and other photos of its dissembled test wheel.

Let’s talk about trucking

“A recent Facebook post of a dog with a piece of ham on its face caused the internet to blow up with concerns for the dog. A trucker is shot in the gut in an attack that could have been prevented with safe parking, and no one cares.”

January 13, 2016

This is likely the happiest dog in the world.

Put down your hay forks and listen to how silly this sounds

Quit talking, start doing -- "The parking issue is not insurmountable, but it will require action instead of surveys, data collection, and general messing around."

January 4, 2016

Mindless mobs need not apply.

New trucker-friendly hotel-booking engine

PTAG, the Professional Trucker’s Association Group, has launched its “PTAG Safe Truck Parking Program,” primarily a hotel-booking engine with negotiated discounts built in, the organization notes.

December 30, 2015

National Coalition on Truck Parking formed, results of Jason’s Law parking study released

DOT reps and stakeholder groups have signed a pledge of commitment to a newly created National Coalition on Truck Parking.

August 21, 2015

Survey results noted that 37 U.S. states confirmed a shortage of available parking within their borders. Problems are widespread, “observed in regions with high populations and population densities, along major freight corridors carrying inter-regional commerce, and in locations associated with ports and manufacturing centers,” the Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey’s results note. Find a link to it below.

Electronic Logging Devices

Early adopters: Getting ahead of the ELD mandate

Most owner-operators still oppose an ELD mandate as the final rule gets closer. Yet some independents see benefits in trying out new technology to adjust to what they believe to be an eventual reality.

August 18, 2015

J.J. Keller & Associates’ Encompass system (also pictured at top) can be paired with the company’s specially designed tablet or with operators’ personal Android or iOS devices. Tom Reader, J.J. Keller marketing director, believes the company is well-positioned. “We’re in virtually every truck stop in the country,” he says. “We have a really good track record in the owner-operator market with paper logs. Right now, the electronic log at truck stops? We’re not there yet.” But it’s coming soon. The engine connection retails at about $200.

Overdrive Radio

An industry with a voice: Trucking’s opportunity to make it heard over CSA

The Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking represents the first, best opportunity to speak out on CSA, according to Dave Heller, speaking to a group of safety managers convened for TCA meeting.

May 4, 2015

“I’m not supposed to talk about my personal preferences” as new TCA chairman, noted Keith Tuttle (pictured) in his opening remarks Sunday. At once, he said, he was “taking the chairman’s prerogative to move off script” when he expressed his belief that “when ELDs become standard equipment on all trucks, we will be a safer industry.”

AA&E: Where the money is, if anywhere, in military freight

FedEx custom-critical expediters Andy and Myrian Johnson are sunny about high-security military freight, where the money is -- if it’s anywhere -- in the defense-department niche.

February 7, 2014

Andy and Myrian Johnson and FedEx Custom Critical truck

National truck-parking driver survey launched

Here find out how to take the survey, created by Hope Rivenburg in part in concert with driver advocates Allen and Donna Smith of Truth About Trucking and aimed at educating the DOT on parking needs.

May 15, 2013

truck stop parking

New one-truck portable tarping system

Owner-operator John Rodriguez, with business partner Willie Lancon, designed the Roller Rak portable tarping machine following a couple falls while tarping that could have been disasters.

March 25, 2013

MATS 2013 attendees were treated to a demonstration video of the Roller Rak that owner-operator John Rodriguez had filmed on a winter day in Texas with 35-mph winds — terrible day for tarping a high load. You can find the vid on my Facebook page here.

When trucks are ‘an eyesore and a nuisance’

It’s happened again: A city councilman’s idea to ban truck parking within town borders shows evidence of what drivers and other advocates are up against in the battle to improve parking availability in less-served areas.

February 19, 2013

Lack of a local parking ban on trucks in Erin, Tenn., means owner-operator Dan Heister is able with the property owner’s permission to utilize this gravel lot in his area at the intersection two state routes occasionally for overnight parking.

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