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Business
Rule reduces paperwork on intermodal equipment
Truckers operating intermodal equipment no longer are required to submit inspection reports if the equipment has no defects.
June 16, 2012
Business
OMB wraps up work on intermodal equipment rule
The White House Office of Management and Budget has completed work on the FMCSA’s amended final rule concerning intermodal equipment.
June 6, 2012
Channel 19
Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?
EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just drivers’ word.
May 4, 2012
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Business
OMB gets amended intermodal equipment rule
FMCSA has sent the White House an amended final rule concerning intermodal equipment repair and maintenance.
April 26, 2012
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Business
Intermodal flatbed launched
Boyd Intermodal, along with partner Raildecks Intermodal, on Feb. 28 announced the launch of its Boyd/Raildecks flatbed intermodal product designed to allow industrial freight such as steel and aluminum coils to be transported by railroad. Class 1 railroads can enable the flatbed industry to create capacity “when the only way previously was to add a […]
February 29, 2012
Business
Chasing the Green
Certain niches offer big income potential for those willing to specialize.
January 1, 2012
Tim Philmon’s 2011 income boost arrived after what he calls the “survival mode” he and so many flatbed operators went through in 2009. His success strategy includes longer rounds and flocking to areas with jobs no one wants to do, such as the North in winter.
Channel 19
Port haulers on Occupy actions
The Occupy Wall Street movement claimed solidarity with West Coast port haulers yesterday in efforts with varying success to shut down ports in Southern and Northern California as well as farther north in the Pacific Northwest. Some port haulers reciprocated the gesture. This “Open Letter From America’s Port Truck Drivers,” for instance, originating from the […]
December 13, 2011
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Business
Drayage fair to detail government incentive programs
The Drayage Truck Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 16, at the Port Authority’s Executive Building parking lot in Houston.
April 13, 2011
Channel 19
Combating cargo theft: An interview with Schneider security director Walt Fountain
When I visited Schneider National’s Green Bay, Wis., headquarters in June for the carrier’s 75th-anniversary celebration, I got an up-close look at one of many efforts the company’s put in place over the years to enhance the security of its customers’ cargo in transit and at each of its 15 domestic facilities. Gate-security ground zero […]
November 26, 2010
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Business
LaHood responds to ATA letter
The June 3 letter responded to an ATA letter in which the ATA said the DOT appeared to disproportionately support non-truck transport.
June 5, 2010
Business
Report: Intermodal hits record high
Both total intermodal movements and movements of domestic intermodal equipment reached new market share highs in first quarter.
May 11, 2010
Intermodal movements hitrecord high in 1st quarter. (Photo Todd Dills)
Channel 19
UPDATE: Scenes from Nashville trucking central
There’s been little to no coverage of a big portion of Nashville’s industrial and transportation base, much of it situated along rail tracks north and south of the Cumberland River and east of downtown, that was still, as of yesterday, under water. In my last post, I mentioned Vitran Express and intermodal carrier TCW, both situated, along […]
May 5, 2010
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