Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 107

Business

DOT adds $6M for truck parking on interstates

The agency added $6 million to help address parking shortage for commercial trucks on five U.S. interstates.

June 22, 2010

Business

Agency to drop cargo insurance requirement

Household goods motor carriers and household goods freight forwarders will continue to be subject to the cargo insurance requirement.

June 22, 2010

Business

Diesel prices creeping up

After five weeks of declines, the price gained 3.3 cents to $2.961 in the latest week.

June 22, 2010

Business

Avery farm truck turns 100

The 1910 Avery farm truck’s centennial will be honored at 2:30 p.m. July 9 at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. The so-called birthday party for the truck coincides with the Walcott Truckers Jamboree that weekend in Walcott, Iowa. The Avery is the oldest truck on display at the trucking museum, said its curator Dave Meier. The farm […]

June 21, 2010

Business

New truck orders surge 84% in May

ACT reported 13,231 net orders of Class 8 vehicles. Over half of the orders are scheduled for delivery in the third quarter.

June 21, 2010

Channel 19

Champion sumo wrestler/Idaho potato hauler

If rumored body-mass-index caps ever become a reality for interstate truckers (however doubtful that is), 420-lb. Kelly Gneiting (pictured, as featured in a Feb. 2009 edition of ESPN magazine) may well be there to prove the regulatory faults. As a sumo wrestler, he’s in top shape, he said in this recent story, on the website of the Denver […]

June 21, 2010

Business

I-5 construction work begins in Bellingham, Wash.

The onramp to northbound I-5 at the Northwest Avenue interchange will close for two weeks starting June 21.

June 21, 2010

Business

Ind.-Ky. bridge to be replaced

Recovery Act funds will go toward the total replacement cost of $129.5 million the Milton-Madison Bridge.

June 21, 2010

Business

I-90 construction near Seattle started

Crews are widening East Sunset Way from 6th Avenue N.E. to I-90 at Issaquah, Wash.

June 21, 2010

Business

Hearing set for CSA 2010

The hearing will be June 23 before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

June 21, 2010

Business

Congress eyes employee misclassification

U.S. and state officials have investigated misclassification in recent years, with industries such as trucking and construction drawing more scrutiny.

June 18, 2010

Business

Crete wins Owens Corning award

Crete Carrier Corp. has won the Enterprise Carrier of the Year Award from Owens Corning. This is the third consecutive year that the Lincoln, Neb.-based fleet was won the prize, said Crete spokesman Andy Brabec. The carrier shipped more than 16,500 loads of insulation, shingles and building materials for Owens Corning in the past year, […]

June 18, 2010