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‘Top-tier’ most effective states ranked in ATRI crash/inspections analysis
The state of Indiana leads the way in the American Transportation Research Institute’s ranking of state enforcement departments on the effectiveness of their truck-enforcement units, based principally on an assumed relationship between crashes and traffic-enforcement activities.
August 6, 2018
Business
No guarantees for fleets trying guaranteed pay
Efforts to improve retention and the driver experience have centered on detention and benefits, among other things instead of minimum pay. Details here.
July 6, 2018
Channel 19
‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Business
Spot market demand tilting toward a stronger environment for carriers in 2017
FTR analyst and COO Jonathan Starks feels truckers’ demand position in the spot market will improve well into 2017, particularly if movement toward electronic logging devices picks up. As in any improving-demand situation, rates will follow up.
November 2, 2016
Business
Regulations to present challenge, opportunity in the new year
At Truckstop.com’s first user conference in Dallas, company head Scott Moscrip expressed cautious optimism about the coming year and previewed new payment, rate, insurance and other products.
November 10, 2015
Business
Spot market van freight: As volume grows slowly, pricing lags
Freight trends this week: Nationally, van rates dropped a couple cents, but opportunity exists in local markets in N.Y., Pa., Md., Va. and Ind.; Charlotte-to-Buffalo lane still ripe for triangulation.
August 20, 2015
Channel 19
The Roadcheck effect
Take a visit to the mechanic? Go through the truck with a fine-toothed comb? … How do you prepare for the annual 72-hour inspection blitz? It’s coming soon — June 2-4.
April 28, 2015
Channel 19
Trucker demand on the West Coast with the port backlog: Update
As of last week Tuesday, Los Angeles outbound was showing a load-to-truck ratio of 0.7 on DAT boards — the company considers 2.5 a balanced ratio. Look for demand to heat up mid-March.
March 2, 2015
Business
Top 10 state truck enforcement departments ranked by performance
Access Overdrive analysis of data on the top 10 high-performance states when it comes to truck enforcement, as ranked in the brand-new report from the American Transportation Research Institute, out today.
October 21, 2014
Channel 19
Rates, lanes on Labor Day weekend and beyond: A new resource
Where’d you load Friday? As owner-operator Chad Boblett of the Rate Per Mile Masters Facebook group and Rates and Lanes podcast notes, the answer probably had a lot to do with the rate you were able to negotiate for the long weekend.
August 30, 2014
Channel 19
Speed limiters not ‘worth the hassle’: More voices on potential mandate
Michael Goodman, among others: “Forcing speed limiters will make roads less safe and be another unnecessary cost to the millions of truck owners in the United States.”
August 29, 2014
Channel 19
Investment banker’s front-line info source: You
A banker who looks to drivers for front-line economic information predicts some good times ahead — what does business look like where you sit?
July 14, 2014
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