Tag: trucking: Page 59

Business

Daimler Trucks signs contracts at 3 plants

The truck maker announced 3-year collective bargaining agreements for three of its U.S. manufacturing plants in North Carolina.

April 19, 2010

Business

Bennett recruiting 200-plus owner-operators

A nationwide recruitment campaign to lease on more than 200 new owner-operators in 30 days.

April 16, 2010

Business

Old Dominion begins tour

Old Dominion Freight Line, based in Thomasville, N.C., will begin April 21 a nationwide truck tour.

April 16, 2010

Business

I-90 construction in Idaho to restrict traffic

Beginning April 26, I-90 will be reduced to one lane in each direction until about mid-June.

April 16, 2010

Business

Nebraska latest state to ban texting

Beginning July 1, texting while driving will be a secondary offense, carrying a $200 fine.

April 16, 2010

Business

Virginia reopens 19 rest areas

The reopening of the final seven rest areas has restored all of Virginia’s rest areas to full operations.

April 15, 2010

Business

Pride & Polish kicks off in Florida

The 2010 Pride & Polish series starts with the April 24-25 show at 75 Chrome Shop in Wildwood, Fla.

April 15, 2010

Channel 19

Grassroots victory over proposed NY truck ban

Since the New York State protest convoys of November 2008, organized in part by the Mohawk Valley Truckers and Citizens United chapter, the issue of a big plan of truck-route restrictions on state highways in New York has seen growing opposition, with large groups among various industries joining trucking groups in decrying the state’s plans […]

April 15, 2010

Business

Letter: Rework NAFTA on Mexican trucking

78 members of Congress complained to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk about “unsafe” Mexican trucks.

April 15, 2010

Business

Landstar 1st-quarter revenue up

Revenue hauled by third-party truck capacity providers was 17 percent higher to $505.9 million.

April 15, 2010

Business

Freight transportation index rises in February

Freight TSI has increased 3.6 percent over the last nine months, after declining 15.3 percent in the previous 10 months.

April 14, 2010

Channel 19

Doyle Blackerby writes his life in trucking

The Gadsden Times in Alabama published a rich story this past Sunday by correspondent Harry D. Butler about a great American original in Doyle Blackerby, 38-year commercial hauler, born in lower-state Leeds, Ala. His career followed the development of the interstate highway system, beginning just out of the Army in 1950 (where he’d served as a driver) […]

April 14, 2010