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News · Aug 26, 2019

Is the Freight Recession over?

Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index — USA (SONAR: OTVI.USA) After approximately nine months of flat or contracting volumes and rates, the freight market has started to change course. The national Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) just had its longest stretch of positive growth this year at 31 days of year-over-year growth. During this stretch, which started on July 24, volumes averaged 2.9% higher than the same period in 2018. Prior to this, the longest consecutive period of positi

News · Aug 25, 2019

Bernie Sanders wants to spend $216 billion to replace all diesel trucks with electric trucks

Bernie Sanders wants to spend $216 billion to replace all long-haul diesel trucks with fast-charging electric trucks if he is elected president in 2020.- According to the article in the freightwaves.com and its author John Gallagher “Because this nation depends heavily on goods that are shipped all over the country by truckers, we must ensure that they are able to keep up their pace while we meet our climate goals,” Sanders argued. “Truck drivers from the largest fleets to small owner-operators

News · Aug 23, 2019

Owner-operator Taylor Barker wins 2019 Trucker Talent Search

"Taylor Barker, a tank-hauling owner-operator out of Kingsport, Tennessee, won the 2019 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio’s Trucker Talent Search contest after a live finale held Friday, Aug. 23 at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas." -According to the article in overdriveonline.com and its author James Jaillet [Original image could not be recovered]From left: Jason Henley, Taylor Barker and Ken Freeman. Barker, who leases his 2010 Peterbilt 386 to Heniff Transport, played the Zane Williams song “

News · Aug 23, 2019

CBP seized a shipment of illegal firearms parts from China

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport in coordination with the Machinery Center of Excellence and Expertise (CEE), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), intercepted and seized 52,601 firearms parts in violation of the Chinese Arms Embargo.The sights, stocks, muzzles, brakes, buffer kits,and grips had a combined domestic valueof $378,225.00.The seized items described as sights, stocks, muzzles, brakes, buffer kits, an

News · Aug 22, 2019

Truckers can make comments on Hours of Service changes proposal until Oct. 7

Truckers, trucking industry stakeholders and the public at large have 45 days — until Oct. 7 — to file formal feedback for the U.S. DOT to consider when crafting a rule to overhaul federal Hours of Service regulations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has proposed major changes to the trucking hours-of-service (HOS) regulations, which if implemented would give carriers and drivers more flexibility in how they operate. The rulemaking seeks public comment on five key changes

News · Aug 22, 2019

Truckers are the ones who keep the NASCAR drivers racing

"Millions of NASCAR fans turn on their televisions or file into racetrack stands each year to take in all the action of a good race. What those fans don’t see is the preparation that goes into making a race successful." - According to the article in the freightwaves.com and its author Ashley Coker "The race cars, and all the equipment and accessories that go along with them, have to move from racetrack to racetrack somehow. That is where truck drivers like Stewart-Haas Racing Transporter Scott R

News · Aug 21, 2019

Diesel prices will spike due to IMO 2020

"In anticipating the price impact on diesel prices from the launch of IMO 2020 on January 1 – with any impacts expected to start before that – most forecasters have been fairly moderate in their outlook, with some exceptions. But Fitch Solutions, a unit of Fitch Group, recently came out with its forecast. Prominent in the title is the ‘S’ word – spike. “Diesel: Tighter Shipping Rules to Lead Large Price Spike in 2020” is the title of the report. The report as a whole sees the oil market in the n

News · Aug 19, 2019

Armed Robbery At The Truck Stop Ends Up In Arrest Of The Offender

Will County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an armed robbery in progress yesterday morning, 8/18/19, around 4:33am. Deputies arrived at the Knights Inn/River Road Truck Stop, 24007 W. Lorenzo Road in Wilmington Township and spoke with a male attendant who stated that he was just robbed by a masked gunman. The employee stated that around 4:30 am, a man wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt with a blue ski mask and gloves on came into the store and told him to open the cash register. The offender then

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News · Aug 19, 2019

CBP Seized almost 8 Thousand Pounds of Marijuana Hidden in a Tractor-Trailer full of Jalapeno Peppers

SAN DIEGO – CBP officers assigned to the Otay Mesa cargo facility seized almost four tons of marijuana yesterday co-mingled in a shipment of jalapeño peppers, valued at $2.3 million “I am proud of the officers for seizing this significant marijuana load,” said Otay Mesa Port Director, Rosa Hernandez. “Not only did they prevent the drugs from reaching our community, they also prevented millions of dollars of potential profit from making it into the hands of a transnational criminal organization.”

News · Aug 16, 2019

Trucking carriers continue to exit the market, citing a variety of reasons including low freight rates

Trucking carriers continue to exit the market, citing a variety of reasons including the regulatory environment, low rates, inflated wages, and high insurance costs. To the date, there is little to suggest that capacity has bled off enough to materially affect spot rates – most of the discussion with private and public third-party logistics providers this summer has been around very loose capacity.- According to the article in freightwaves.com and its author John Paul Hampstead "That may be chan

News · Aug 15, 2019

Trucker’s dash-cam video gets driver fired

Larry Ash, a trucker for over 25 years, grabbed his CB radio after another semi veered into an oncoming lane – across two solid lines – on a blind corner to pass him on a British Columbia highway.- According to the article in freightwaves.com and its author Nate Tabak “I said, ‘Buddy, you just lost your license,’” Ash recalled. “He never said a word.” Ash, however, did get responses from authorities and the other driver’s employer after he posted high-definition dashcam footage of the August 10

News · Aug 15, 2019

California Highway Patrol says electric trucks are “definitely the future” after Tesla semi-truck test

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) says they were very impressed with Tesla Semi truck performance. On Thursday, August 15 CHP Donner Pass division shared a post from their Facebook page showing their encounter with electric Tesla Semi hauling approximately 75,000 lbs flatbed load (including the truck). "Tesla is out testing the new electric truck tractor. The driver stated the concrete blocks are for testing purposes only. According to the driver the truck is operating at approximately 75,000