Tag: grants

Channel 19
With PPP loan terms relaxed, consider these questions to avoid a forgiveness trap
As Paycheck Protection loan terms extend, here's how to avoid a potential loan forgiveness trap, given freight uncertainty for the rest of the year.
June 12, 2020
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Overdrive Radio
How to do the hard work now: COVID-19 business-, health-support insights
Gary Buchs offers insight on investigating resources and applying for SBA assistance during the coronavirus on this edition of Overdrive Radio. Click here.
April 10, 2020
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Channel 19
CARB dismantled my truck, now it’s hauling around Mexico
That was the case after a truck owner participated in California’s Prop 1B grant program for truck replacement. After his truck was dismantled, a GPS unit that had been inadvertently left hardwired behind the dash reported years’ worth of positions at work south of the border in Jalisco.
March 21, 2019
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Business
FMCSA doles out $70M for driver training entities
Grants were awarded to states to fund commercial vehicle safety efforts and CDL training, while some commercial driver training schools received grants to help train military veterans to drive trucks.
September 27, 2017
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Channel 19
‘Zero highway deaths’ goal needs general public target
Regulators’ ultimate goal pondered, in light of the laundry list of highway-bill recommendations the MCSAC delivered to Congress two weeks back.
February 24, 2014
Deliberation within the MCSAC Feb. 11 included a process of voting via green stickers for various recommendations out of a list of a total 38. This one, a provision for FMCSA to move ahead with a rulemaking on sleep apnea in medical certifications, received 12 total votes, landing it within the top six measures. For the top 12 of the recs, read this story.
Channel 19
Too little too late? New grants for CARB upgrades
News of new grant funding available for truck DPF retrofits and truck replacements for California-based owner-operators shows limitations of California’s grant programs.
September 3, 2013
Click this map for a CARB page where you can access each California air quality district’s website via links embedded in a map there.
Channel 19
APU rebates, Leslie train horns for East Tennessee’s Sams Trucking
Check out my story in the September Overdrive magazine on various financial incentives — rebates, grants, various low-interest loan programs — state governments are making available to owner-operators and carriers to encourage the purchase of idle-reduction technologies like APUs, cab heaters and the like, and you’ll find in the lead this pic of the new […]
September 8, 2010
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