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How to get — and keep — the contract
Success in hauling with your own authority often requires negotiating contracts directly with shippers and keeping those contracts when bigger competitors come prowling. The father-son operation of John and Erick (pictured) Engbarth learned this by experience. Erick makes regular hauls from North Carolina to California loaded with plastics and usually carrying motorcycles back. When Engbarth […]
October 29, 2011
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Friday Channel 19 news round-up: Cross-border trucking; ‘driver shortage’; and the 1 on the 53 and the 99
Separate but not equal That separation could be diminishing when it comes to U.S. and Mexican tucking, now that a new pilot program for cross-border long haul is under way.  In the wake of the Oct. 21 border ceremony at Laredo, when the first Mexican truck crossed as part of the new cross-border pilot program, […]
October 28, 2011
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Tenn. truck stop that received TSE grant shut down
TR Auto Truck Plaza on Interstate 40 in Dandridge was closed and seized by a bank.
October 28, 2011
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Hours final rule delayed till Nov. 28
FMCSA misses Oct. 28 target date transportation officials had indicated to a federal court.
October 28, 2011
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Log checks place 22% out of service in Ore.
ODOT placed 231 drivers out of service from more than 1,000 inspections from Oct. 17 through 22.
October 27, 2011
Oregon state inspector chats with driver during inspection.
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New freight-finding Android app from ATS
A new freight matching app for owner-operators and other carriers comes by way of Anderson Trucking Service’s brokerage wing, ATS Logistics. It didn’t arrive in time for my cover story in the November edition of Truckers News, a survey of on-highway apps making life easier for drivers on the road today, so I’m sharing here. […]
October 27, 2011
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Love’s stop opens in Ottawa, Kan.
Truckers will receive extra points on purchases with store cards through Nov. 27 at a newly opened stop in Ottawa, Kan., at Exit 183 off Interstate 35, Love’s Travel Stops said. The new travel center features a Hardee’s restaurant, 70 truck parking spaces, diesel exhaust fluid dispensers, CAT scales, five showers and a game room. […]
October 27, 2011
Business
ATA Good Stuff Trucking Image Award winners announced
Two carriers and two state trucking associations received the American Trucking Associations’ Good Stuff Trucking Image awards. Milan, Ind.-based Baylor Trucking Inc., Greensboro-N.C.-based Mack Trucks, the Minnesota Trucking Association and the Tennessee Trucking Association were honored for enhancing the industry’s image, said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. For details, visit Trucks Bring It.
October 26, 2011
Business
CARB amends reefer rule for certain engines
Owners of model year 2003 and older reefer engines that met low-emission reefer standards will get an extra year to meet a future standard.
October 26, 2011
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ATA tonnage index gains in September
Compared with September 2010, adjusted tonnage was up a solid 5.9 percent.
October 26, 2011
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Scenes of Chrome & Class
That’s David Holbrook’s 1986 Peterbilt 359, winner of both Working Bobtail and People’s Choice awards in the second annual Chrome & Class Truck Show, held at the Rush Truck Center location in Smyrna, Tenn., on I-24 just southeast of Nashville. It was a much expanded show this year, with near double the number of entered […]
October 26, 2011
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FFE sells dry van trailers, tractors to Celadon
Frozen Food Express announced earlier this month it would restructure its dry freight service.
October 26, 2011
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