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Spot freight jumps in April

Spot market freight availability increased by 291 percent in April compared to the same month in 2009, according to TransCore’s North American Freight Index. Load volume was nearly 25 percent higher than in March, more than double the average month-over-month increase for this season. April’s spot freight volume was the highest in any single month […]

May 19, 2010

Business

Flatbed carrier awards bonuses

Builders Transportation Co. distributed nearly $84,000 to 16 drivers following the first quarter of this year, the flatbed carrier announced. Drivers who run 30,000 miles or produce $40,000 in freight revenue qualify for quarterly bonuses at the family-owned company based in Memphis, Tenn. To qualify for the bonus, drivers must have had no preventable accidents, […]

May 18, 2010

Business

IdleAire to restart 23 locations

Five of the planned locations would be in Texas and five more in Pennsylvania.

May 18, 2010

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California air agency begins truck rules at ports

Drayage truck owners working California ports and intermodal rail yards face new emissions rules from the California Air Resources Board that carry potential fines. Enforcement, which had been delayed since January, began May 15. CARB’s Port Drayage Rule bans trucks with 1993 or older engines from entering ports and intermodal rail yards. Trucks with model […]

May 18, 2010

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Diesel price falls

After hitting its highest level in 18 months last week, the national average retail price of a gallon of diesel dropped this week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The price fell 3.3 cents to $3.094 in the latest week, the biggest drop in 16 weeks. All regions reported sizable decreases, led by a […]

May 18, 2010

Channel 19

Running below the E-O-B-Radar…

In my research for the cover story of the current edition of Overdrive, “Getting on board,” about the growing use of electronic onboard recorders for logging among many major carriers throughout the United States, I had a conversation with expediting husband-wife team Bob and Linda Caffee about curiosities of their electronic logging system. “We drove […]

May 18, 2010

Business

Diesel price declines

The price fell 3.3 cents to $3.094 in the latest week, the biggest drop in 16 weeks.

May 18, 2010

Business

TransCore: Spot freight jumps in April

Spot market freight availability increased by 291 percent in April compared to the same month in 2009.

May 18, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP:  TRY TO DEPART EARLY. Especially when bad

PIB TIP:  TRY TO DEPART EARLY. Especially when bad weather poses potential delays, try to depart early. Leaving late gives you no time to recover from an unexpected storm and is the major reason for service failures – such as running out of hours on the morning of a delivery. The Partners in Business program […]

May 18, 2010

Reader Rigs

Harry Grimes’ 2010 Peterbilt 387 is a project in t

Harry Grimes’ 2010 Peterbilt 387 is a project in the works. The new rig is equipped with a 500-hp Cummins and a 10-speed Eaton Fuller. Grimes, a resident of Phoenix, Ariz., is leased to U.S. Express and hauls dry van freight in 48 states.

May 18, 2010

Business

South Carolina Truck Show to feature prizes, wedding

The June 25-26 South Carolina Truck Show will give prize money totaling $10,000 to truck show winners and host the wedding of longtime show truck enthusiast Chuck Kemner. Exhibits featuring trucking technology, services and recruiting will comprise the two-day show on the grounds of the Faith Assembly of God Church in Charleston, at 337 Farmington […]

May 18, 2010

Business

Trucker helps free family trapped in car

Pegasus driver Shane Brooks was named a TCA Highway Angel for helping a woman and three children escape from their car.

May 17, 2010