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Saturday round-up: Life goes on, worm turns on small fleet successes

Pony express freight: A prescription from a reader for long-term long-haul small fleet success? And: Got the white stuff? We got plenty of it here. . . . Stay warm.

January 23, 2016

Driver-with-ice-and-snow-at-Kroger

Teletrac e-log manager platform connects to McLeod LoadMaster

The integration allows for easy review of drivers’ HOS statuses for federally-compliant loads assignments

December 16, 2015

Teletrac-Hours-portal

HubTran to offer small-carrier back-office software online in 2016

The HubTran technology platform for document/invoice processing and resolution, today offered for brokerage and factoring companies, will see a carrier version offered in 2016.

November 30, 2015

Hubtran payables dashboard

Electronic Logging Devices

DAT jumps into the e-log market with multifunction platform

Growing integration between DAT’s core freight matching and location-based services and the new DAT InView set of compliance, tracking and vehicle-diagnostic services will drive 2016 development.

November 6, 2015

DAT-InView-screenshot-speed-chart

Poison pill for independents in the House highway bill?

With the House T&I committee’s markup of the highway bill under way today, detail on a provision that could have a chilling effect on broker business with independents and small carriers.

October 22, 2015

‘Trucking boom’ in driver pay, says the WSJ

Questions after report on trucker pay: Will the pay gains truly hold in 2015? Are such gains also reflected among employee drivers for smaller fleets?

October 15, 2015

Click through the image above for the Wall Street Journal’s latest foray into trucking economics — “Drivers ride high on trucking boom.”

How to get covered through the health insurance exchanges

How to access assistance navigating the health-insurance exchanges enable by the Affordable Care Act. The 2015-16 open enrollment period runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 31.

October 14, 2015

Obamacare federal exchange state information and map October 2015

FMCSA hits back on CSA effectiveness, defends accuracy of carrier rankings system

Amid increasing calls for the FMCSA to remove CSA rankings/scores from public view, a new analysis from FMCSA reiterates what the agency has said all along about the CSA Safety Measurement System: It’s effective.

October 8, 2015

inspection barn

Friday round-up: Small-fleet struggles hit the mainstream, apnea ‘twilight zone’ the local paper

A local paper in Minnesota gets the apnea issue more or less right. And: To adapt or not to adapt — the Wall Street Journal paints small-carrier woes with broad brush, with mixed results.

September 25, 2015

Click through the thumbnail image of owner-operator Romero (by Daily Globe photo editor Michael Vosburg) to read his story.

GATS Pride & Polish preview: Chance 2 Transport 389 glider and van, ‘Twisted Obsession’

Video, photos of Rod Miller’s Chance 2 Transport “Twisted Obsession,” a 2014 Peterbilt 389 glider/Great Dane dry van combo you’ll see out on the show floor at GATS this week.

August 26, 2015

The striking stripe extending from the hood to the back of the sleeper Miller fashioned from a similar design he saw on an older Peterbilt.

Wisconsin: Targeting enforcement for violations

Only one state does it better — or in many truckers’ perspectives, worse — than Wisconsin. With more than 3 violations written for every inspection performed in 2014, the state closed in on category leader Connecticut.

August 6, 2015

Wisconsin follows only Connecticut in the violation intensity of its individual inspections, with more than three violations issued for every inspection performed. The good news? Truckers traveling through the state are relatively unlikely to receive an inspection, given Wisconsin’s inspection intensity ranking falls in the latter half of states and behind all neighboring states.

UPS buying freight broker Coyote Logistics in $1.8 billion deal

Founded in 2006, full-truckload brokerage Coyote Logistics reported annual revenue of $2.1 billion in 2014. Closing of the deal to buy the company, UPS says, is expected within 30 days, subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.

August 3, 2015

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