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Don’t use Marty Robbins as a navigator
“Sometimes, Marty Robbins lies and life on the road is hard.”
March 22, 2017
Business
Spot freight volume: 100 percent higher than this time last year
The stat in the headline doesn’t tell the whole story, however, as rates are basically flat from where they’ve been the past few weeks. Some bright spots, however, in flatbed.
March 1, 2017
Business
DOT expands Mexican-U.S. border freight zones in Texas, New Mexico
The commercial border zone expansion will give Mexican-domiciled and U.S.-domiciled carriers and drivers a bigger zone to pick up and drop freight near El Paso, along with making some New Mexico-based crossings officially codified as cross-border zones.
February 23, 2016
Business
43 lives claimed during severe week for weather
More is on the way — potential blizzard conditions, flooding, ice, tornadoes — in areas particularly across the Midwest and Southeast through the new year. Keep tuned to weather services on your lanes this week.
December 28, 2015
Channel 19
Bogan case: More reasons to choose a carrier carefully
The Bogan case may be best viewed in the context of tried-and-true advice: be smart and choosy about who you run for. You never know when you may need the boss to go to bat for you rather than hanging you out to dry by being forced out of business.
May 30, 2012
Channel 19
‘Bring Jabin home’ — rally around jailed driver continues
Yesterday, May 10, Allen and Donna Smith of the Truth About Trucking advocacy organization and AsktheTrucker.com hosted a who’s who of folks involved in the case of Demco Transportation driver Jabin Bogan, who is still being held by Mexican authorities after inadvertently proceeding to the border at El Paso/Juarez while toting a load of military-grade […]
May 11, 2012
Business
Top-listed Pilot Flying J reopens El Paso Texas, plaza
A newly remodeled plaza center opened in El Paso, Texas, Pilot Flying J Travel Plazas said. The travel stop company was recently named to Nation’s Restaurant News’ 2011 Top 100 list. The reopened plaza is located at 1301 North Horizon Blvd., and features six fuel islands and 12 diesel islands along with a Denny’s restaurant and a wide […]
July 25, 2011
Channel 19
Texas technicians rope Rush rodeo grand prizes — vids and more from the event
Sorting though the rich experience that was Rush Truck Centers’ Tech Skills Rodeo, held last week in San Antonio, is I’ve found a task best approached over weeks rather than days. If you missed the results, read on, or see my story from last week here. It’s impossible to get it all into the space […]
December 22, 2010
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