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I wanted to write to thank you or your Digest item Wal-Mart Donates 35 Trucks to Food Banks in the Nov. 16 issue, p. 33. In this economy, it is refreshing to read a positive, goodwill article.
I contacted Wal-Mart to tell them and their CEO what a great job they did. Without trucks, all the goodness of America wouldnt be delivered.
January 4, 2010Three experts from Transport Enterprise Leasing discuss strategies for buying and selling trucks amid regulatory shifts, trade tensions and economic uncertainty.
Kerry Introduces Legislation to Reclassify Contractors
The on-again, off-again fight to toughen classification standards for independent contractors is on again, with an effort being led by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who last month introduced a bill trucking industry officials said would erode the protections afforded employers against attempts by the Internal Revenue Service to reclassify independent contractors as employees.
January 4, 2010Technology May Help Solve Congestion for Trucking
A recent study by one of the worlds largest makers of Global Positioning System navigation devices has concluded that Seattle is the most traffic-clogged city in the United States.
January 4, 2010ATA Says It Will Seek a Summary Judgment in Dispute With L.A. Port at Jan. 11 Hearing
Lawyers for American Trucking Associations said they will ask a federal judge on Jan. 11 to forgo a trial in ATAs clean trucks lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles and instead to issue a summary judgment in their favor.
January 4, 2010FMCSA Agrees to Delay Chassis Rule Six Months to Set Up Database System
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it was delaying some intermodal chassis safety requirements for six months to give operators of that equipment more time to create a database to track the condition of each chassis.
January 4, 2010FMCSA Agrees to Delay Chassis Rule Six Months to Set Up Database System
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it was delaying some intermodal chassis safety requirements for six months to give operators of that equipment more time to create a database to track the condition of each chassis.
December 30, 2009Trucking Hopes to Thrive in Economic Recovery, Overcome Anticipated U.S. Regulatory Onslaught
With the worst of the steepest economic downturn in decades apparently in the rearview mirror, trucking executives are shifting their focus to the recovery in 2010, while also bracing for what could be an onslaught of new safety and environmental regulations.
January 4, 2010Fleet Execs Wary of CSA 2010
Some freight executives say they are concerned that the Department of Transportations new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 program which is intended to boost carrier and driver safety could be undermined by inaccurate data, flawed methodology and unintended commercial consequences when it begins in July.
January 4, 2010Diesel Rises 0.6瞽 to $2.732
The average cost of a gallon of diesel in the United States rose for the first time in eight weeks, inching up 0.6 cent to $2.732 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.
January 4, 2010Truckload Drivers Staying Put
Driver turnover at large truckload carriers fell in the third quarter to 43% a year, the lowest level since American Trucking Associations began tracking the data in 1995.
January 4, 2010