Tag: availability

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs up the ante on parking

Check out the unintended effect of the ELD mandate on parking and what truckers are saying about the parking situation across the U.S. on Overdrive.

May 30, 2018

Business

In the freight rate/availability weeds this disastrous week

With Hurricane Irma on the way and Harvey’s effects being felt, the two natural disasters are “coming on top of a robust economy,” notes DAT’s Ken Harper, which could bode well for parts of the national freight market in the coming weeks.

September 8, 2017

Business

Harvey effect: Texas rates climbing, diesel could jump 15-25 cents, high-dollar FEMA loads available

Per a seven-day rolling average maintained by load board DAT Solutions, van rates between Dallas and Seguin, Texas, (about a 250-mile run) have shot up 49 percent in recent days to a $3.46 per-mile average, with some loads paying above $5. More here on rates and fuel prices here…

August 31, 2017

Business

Let’s talk about trucking

“A recent Facebook post of a dog with a piece of ham on its face caused the internet to blow up with concerns for the dog. A trucker is shot in the gut in an attack that could have been prevented with safe parking, and no one cares.”

January 13, 2016

Business

Put down your hay forks and listen to how silly this sounds

Quit talking, start doing -- "The parking issue is not insurmountable, but it will require action instead of surveys, data collection, and general messing around."

January 4, 2016

Parking

Far from just a ‘driver gripe’: Parking a growing concern for fleets, too

A perennial concern of drivers and owner-operators stands firm in the ranks at the No. 6 position in a prominent fleet survey: Truck parking,

October 14, 2014

Channel 19

Reader to truck stops: Better optimize, expand parking space; And an eats tip in AL

“There’s nothing worse than after a long hard day’s driving to pull into a truck stop and find full spaces taken up with just a tractor or an RV.” –Rick Fine, Pueblo, Colo.

August 6, 2014

Channel 19

When trucks are ‘an eyesore and a nuisance’

It’s happened again: A city councilman’s idea to ban truck parking within town borders shows evidence of what drivers and other advocates are up against in the battle to improve parking availability in less-served areas.

February 19, 2013