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Business

Trade with Canada, Mexico up

Surface transportation trade among the three countries increased 13.8 percent in September over September 2010.

November 30, 2011

Channel 19

$50,000 reward for some missing …

They’ve been gone a few years — a grand total of 175 of them, mostly between the ages 3 and 7 years old now, according to a story published yesterday at the website of AgWeek. They were the property of cattleman James Larsen, whose father, incidentally, was a trucker. ATTENTION LIVESTOCK HAULERS: in two ads […]

November 29, 2011

Business

Revision of hours rule gets postponed again

FMCSA said that it expects to issue the final rule within the next 30 days.

November 29, 2011

Business

Groups file lawsuit to block cross-border program

A lawsuit seeks to block the U.S. DOT from opening the U.S. border to Mexican trucks.

November 29, 2011

Business

Goodyear Highway Hero nominations close Nov. 30

Nominations will be accepted until Nov. 30 for Goodyear’s annual North America Highway Hero program.

November 29, 2011

Business

Truck design contest opens to college students

University students are eligible to enter truck designs suitable for owner-operators for the annual contest Design the Future of Pride & Profit, Portland, Ore.-based Freightliner Trucks announced. The winner will receive a $20,000 scholarship and option for a paid internship at the truck maker. The competition will run from November through February 2012. Three finalists […]

November 28, 2011

Business

Titan serves power lifter contest

Winner Hapfor Julius Bjornsson pulled a Mack Titan faster than the nine other power lifters in the truck-pull event of the Met-Rx World’s Strongest Man contest, the Greensboro, N.C.-based truck maker announced. Wearing a harness, Bjornsson pulled the 22,000-pound tractor the required 25 meters in less time than of all other contestants at the event […]

November 28, 2011

Channel 19

Operation Roger, Susanne Spirit get some national ink

Growing for a long moment, the Operation Roger network of volunteer haulers making themselves available to connect adopted pets with new caretakers — or to reunite lost pets with their owners — free of any charge got some ink this month. The MSNBC cable network did a story on them, and we’re happy to report […]

November 28, 2011

Channel 19

About truckin’ time: Tony Justice record in stores Dec. 6

“It’s about truckin’ time,” says Tony Justice, East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and the songwriter behind the upcoming “On the Road” album (I wrote about it last month here). It’s due out in all Pilot Flying J stores Dec. 6. It’s a trucking album by a trucker and for truckers, Justice notes, and stay tuned on […]

November 26, 2011

Channel 19

Happy Thanksgiving!

Some well benefited from a rise in rates over the year, particularly in flatbed, but how about thankfulness for 3-D trailer graphics…

November 24, 2011

Business

ATA adjusted freight index rises in October

Index increased 0.5 percent in October after 1.5 percent in September.

November 23, 2011

Channel 19

Driver action on sleep apnea, CSA, EOBRs, cross-border trucking

Regular readers will recall my post from last month following the first annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention, which spurred on driver advocate Frederick Schaffner to be a presence in D.C. at the November meeting of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committtee. There, a large part of the discussion was devoted to standards for […]

November 23, 2011