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Business
Land Span adds 24-day availability bonus for teams
Nationwide carrier Land Span, Inc., is offering an availability bonus incentive to team company drivers.
February 8, 2011
Business
Trucker Buddy honors Mercer driver
Steve Dyer, an owner-operator leased to Mercer Transportation, has beenĀ chosen as December 2010ās Truck Buddy of the Month, the educational outreach Trucker Buddy International said. Dyer is honored for volunteering at Carr Creek Elementary in Hindman, Ky., where he visited with students in discussions about his job and his travels. He also sent pictures and [ā¦]
February 7, 2011
Business
Congressman requests cross-border hearing
Congressman has asked House transportation and homeland security leaders for a hearing on plans for a trucking program with Mexico.
February 7, 2011
Business
Hearings set on transportation funding
The U.S. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has scheduled hearings Feb. 14-25 on a long-term transportation reauthorization bill.
February 7, 2011
Trucking History
Action-packed memoir about more than broken bones
Hal Needham, stuntman and director of the āSmokey and the Banditā trilogy, relates career high points in a just-released memoir.
February 4, 2011
Business
January Class 8 truck orders rise 1%
January Class 8 truck total net orders increased 1 percent from December, FTR Associates said.
February 4, 2011
Business
Trucking jobs surge with November revision
U.S. Department of Labor figures released Feb. 4 show 9,200 more trucking jobs than the agencyās report a month ago.
February 4, 2011
Channel 19
Best jobs of 2011: āTruck Driverā ranks 171st
And thatās out of a total 200, listed from ābest to worstā by the folks at careercast.com and publicized in a Wall Street Journal piece early in January. They claim to have based their rankings on five separate factors ā physical demands, work environment, income, employment outlook, and stress ā and āTruck Driverā ratings in [ā¦]
February 4, 2011
Business
Mo. seeks comments on rest area truck parking
The Missouri Department of Transportation is seeking comments on rest area truck parking.
February 4, 2011
Business
Terror alert program changed
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is replacing its five-color terrorist threat alert system with a two-level system.
February 4, 2011
Channel 19
International ocean carriers, truckers, navigate trouble in Egypt
When I made a brief note about unrest brewing over rising food prices and the general employment situation in the North African states of Algeria and Tunisia in my post about the 2008 oil bubble (and current one, if we can consider it such ā final word still out on that), little did I know [ā¦]
February 3, 2011
Channel 19
Snow, snow, more snow; making the most of it
A Pilot Flying J stop on I-70 in Warrenton, Mo., is the subject of reporting on National Public Radio today, and Iād bet you can guess the subject matter. Hear audio of the story, which will be available at about 7 p.m. ET this evening. Suffice to say that truckstop employees Terri Brackney and Greg [ā¦]
February 2, 2011
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