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New iPhone app from Load Delivered Logistics 3PL
Carriers utilizing the Load Delivered Logistics provider for loads now have access to the company’s freight pool via an iPhone and iPad app that the company says provides not only the ability to view and bid on available freight but includes robust filtering tools. Carriers can search for shipments by using a variety of criteria, […]
February 9, 2012
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Dodging bullets from on high
Look up, drivers. Just when you think you’re safe — rig in the lane, four-wheelers keeping a good distance off your back bumper, new regs falling from on high fully accounted for — occasionally, something like this happens. Click through the link to watch a video interview (which aired last week on a local Georgia […]
January 11, 2012
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Connect with Love’s on your phone
Since its debut in mid-2011, the Love’s Connect smartphone app for iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices has seen multiple upgrades aimed at streamlining and cementing users’ connections to Love’s Travel Stops’ services. Today, the app not only provides an efficient stop locator tool, but drivers can utilize one-touch contact of Love’s nationwide dispatch service for […]
January 8, 2012
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Stiff wind to pay the toll: The 2011 Channel 19 year in review
What better way to start the new year than with a look back on the previous? I did it last year, after all, so let’s make it a tradition, how bout? The Chinese Year of the Rabbit saw all manner of issues hopping in and out of the national on-highway spotlight, bookended by a proposed […]
January 1, 2012
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Drivers’ safety conversation continues
If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]
December 20, 2011
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Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban won’t work
As if hearing the plethora of truck drivers’ objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem of motorist distraction on the highways, the National Transportation Safety Board formally recommended that all personal electronic devices be banned from use while […]
December 15, 2011
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Modest proposal: ‘Ban truck driving’
The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nation’s tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, including among them at the very end a reaction by driver Wayne Leverton to witnessing a state patrol officer in Washington State use both hands […]
December 9, 2011
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Texting temptation: A little ditty — and more — to help you resist
A little good humor today — with a safety message to boot. Admit it: We’ve all been tempted when it comes to texting while driving, right? What will it hurt to answer the spouse’s question with a quick “N-O” or, yes, the opposite? Next time that thought fires in your head, Winnipeg, Manitoba-based high school […]
September 8, 2011
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