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Business

DOT reaffirms distracted driving focus

Safeway says its 1,525 truck drivers are prohibited from talking or texting on cell phones, or from using hands-free devices while driving.

January 21, 2011

Channel 19

Making your voice heard on roads, hours

ROADS | The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a group whose name pretty well describes it, is calling on highway users to add input to their preparations to take highway/transportation funding recommendations to Congress. Yesterday, they began a six-week campaign via their Facebook and YouTube pages to collect ideas/input from “travelers, […]

January 20, 2011

Channel 19

Introducing the ‘American Idol of clean energy’

Not the first time the budding-popstar world of American Idol has crossed paths with trucking in this blog, the singing competition, a veritable reality-television institution now entering its 10th season, has gotten so entrenched in the cultural imagination that it’s already in the business of showcasing the kitsch items marking its history, an area once […]

January 19, 2011

Business

December Class 8 orders rise

Orders of Class 8 commercial vehicles for North American markets were 27,044 units, up 128 percent year-over-year.

January 19, 2011

Business

FreightWatch: Cargo theft rose in 2010

Cargo theft industrywide rose by 4.1 percent in 2010 to an average of 75 cargo theft incidents per month, the most ever recorded.

January 19, 2011

Business

National diesel price surges 7.4 cents

Prices rose dramatically in all regions, led by an 11-cent increase in New England.

January 18, 2011

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: SHOP FOR THE BEST VALUE. Get the most for

PIB TIP: SHOP FOR THE BEST VALUE. Get the most for your money in tires, whether you spend a little or a lot. It’s tempting to shop primarily by sticker price, but cost per mile and retreading potential are more important considerations. Making an informed choice means keeping written and dated records of purchase, fuel […]

January 18, 2011

Reader Rigs

Brandon Martin, 25, of Garnet Valley, Pa., hauls s

Brandon Martin, 25, of Garnet Valley, Pa., hauls stone and blacktop locally in this 2006 Mack Granite, his first truck. The rig is equipped with a 460 Mack engine and a 13-speed transmission. Martin has added LED lights and a 13-in. visor to the truck.

January 18, 2011

Channel 19

Moving business headed South

That’s not as bad it sounds. Van operators, take heed. Today’s news comes on the heels of a blog post by the folks at Penske Truck Rental, detailing the top 10 moving destinations in the country. Two of them are places I’ve left in the past — Chicago (in 2006) and Charlotte, N.C. (1998). I […]

January 18, 2011

Channel 19

Toll evasion = life sentence for Chinese ag hauler

After public outcry over the severity of the life prison sentence handed down to a hauler of agricultural commodities for evading road tolls in China, the Chinese government is reportedly revisiting the sentence and has put court officials who handed it down under investigation themselves, according to this AP report on the subject. The hauler, […]

January 17, 2011

Business

Averitt driver wins truck in contest

Averitt Express driver Marty Robbins was randomly selected as the winner of a 2010 Ford F-150 4×4 pickup truck, the grand prize in the carrier’s recent F-150 4×4 Fuel Duel. In addition, 20 other Averitt associates each won a $500 fuel card in a random drawing. The unveiling was the culmination of the company’s six-month […]

January 14, 2011

Business

HWC names driver of year

HWC Transportation, a flatbed carrier headquartered in Fairless Hills, Pa., named its Driver of Year for 2010 and awarded a new truck to a driver at its annual safety meeting. The company presented George Dito, the driver with the highest score for 2010, with the Luchious Eugene “Gene” Wren Driver of the Year award. In […]

January 14, 2011