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Trucks flooded the spot market last week returning from holidays â rates fell 4-6 cents/mile nationally
Holidays are over, itâs certain. The large majority of the trucking world is back to work. The number of trucks posted on the spot truckload freight market increased 77 percent last week, well ahead of the 9 percent gain in available loads.
January 17, 2019
Business
Spot rates edge down in the last week for dry vans, reefers
Van volumes largely held, but reefer markets took a step back, and the national load-to-truck ratio actually dipped below where it was at this time a year ago.
August 15, 2018
Business
Truck brings down Oklahoma City bridge
There were no reported injuries and the driver said that he had cleared the May Avenue Bridge while traveling east bound on Oklahoma Highway 3 earlier that day, but had struck it later while driving west bound.
May 20, 2016
Business
I-44 bridge work in OKC reveals further damage
Damage prompted lane closures between Pennsylvania and Western avenues that, OklaDOT says, should reopen in May. Lane closures in Okemah on I-40, meanwhile, are ongoing through the fall.
April 24, 2015
Truck Stops
Loveâs to buy 50 CNG trucks
Gemini Transport, a Loveâs sister company hauling fuel for the truck stop chain, will put the Freightliners in service in the Texas Triangle and Oklahoma City areas.
March 7, 2013
Business
Preparing for the long haul
Between Redlands, Calif., and McCarran, Nev., Wendyâs looking for âthe usual things â Sasquatch, alien ships, clean showers, good places to eat.â Suggestions?
January 30, 2013
Channel 19
Missing Okla. teen feared trafficked: What you can do
Jaray Wilonâs is latest in a series of cases long ongoing in the United States of missing teens feared sold into prostitution. Truck drivers stand at the front lines of the battle against U.S. human trafficking.
October 29, 2012
Business
New $10K scholarship to be awarded to sidelined driver
Drivers sidelined from trucking for medical reasons are asked to submit applications for the trade-school scholarship via the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund by Nov. 15.
October 25, 2012
Channel 19
âMonkey gougerâ Jimmy Ardis beats the odds to 4 million safe miles
Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis of Sumter, S.C., leased to Moultrie, Ga.-based Sapp Trucking, learned to drive âin a 1971 International 4070 cabover with a 250 Cummins in it,â he says, running to the West Coast and back. Heâd driven farm tractors prior to that. âI pretty well had it mastered by the time I went over [âŚ]
January 26, 2012
Channel 19
Talking recession, recovery and history in Oklahoma City with Marvin Rush
Amid recent headlines trumpeting growing manufacturing activity, freight volumes and truck and trailer sales, itâs tempting to look at Rush Enterprisesâ expansive new facility in Oklahoma City off I-40 at the Council Road exit as yet another sign of the growing consensus that the Great Recession is either over or nearing its close and the trucking [âŚ]
June 15, 2010
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