Industry Mascot “Safety Sammy” travels the country as a symbol of America’s most essential industry: trucking!
Industry Mascot “Safety Sammy” travels the country as a symbol of America’s most essential industry: trucking!
Industry Mascot “Safety Sammy” travels the country as a symbol of America’s most essential industry: trucking!
Industry Mascot “Safety Sammy” travels the country as a symbol of America’s most essential industry: trucking!
Asheville Citizen-Times: How trucking helped land high tech jet engine parts
/in News /by Editorial StaffOld Dominion has been trucking freight across the Southeast for more than 75 years, but this spring the company played a role in driving a new deal to bring more jobs and space-age technology to Asheville.
CCJ: Trucks Moved a Whopping 70 percent — $10 trillion — of Nation’s Goods in 2012
/in News /by Editorial StaffMore than 70 percent of both the value and the weight of the freight moved in the 2012 calendar year trekked via truck, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, who released its annual Commodity Flow Survey results this week.
HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING: 8 Things to Expect on Tomorrow’s Trucks
/in News /by Editorial StaffIn some ways, the truck of the future is here today. What would a truck driver from decades ago think if he were suddenly transported from his own time into one of today’s state-of-the-art rigs?
Smooth, quiet rides. Automated transmissions. A voice giving turn-by-turn directions through in-cab speakers. Systems that warn if he’s wandered out of his lane or to slow down if he’s in danger of hitting the vehicle ahead. Tires that inflate themselves up automatically. The list goes on and on.
MULTIBRIEFS: Truckers: Let’s send a positive image
/in News /by Editorial StaffFor as long as I have been involved in industry associations — whether on a state or federal level — folks in the industry talk about improving our image. Mostly we talk to each other, an audience already holding a positive image of ourselves. That takes little convincing.
TRAILER/BODY BUILDERS: Trucking Industry Raising Funds for Movement
/in News /by Editorial StaffThe trucking industry announced the launch of a fund-raising effort for an industry-wide movement centered on a positive image and a more robust connection with policymakers and the general public.
TRANSPORT TOPICS: Trucking Launches New Image Campaign
/in News /by Editorial StaffTrucking officials announced here the beginning of a new, collaborative campaign to enhance the image of the entire industry. Built around the slogan “Trucking Moves America Forward,” they said the initiative will officially be launched in March at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. “The goal of this movement is simple — to effectively relay the essential nature of the trucking industry to the nation’s economy and the everyday lives of all Americans,” John Conkin, president of the Allied Committee for Transportation.
THE TRUCKER: Obama Quietly Signs Bill Requiring Sleep Disorder Rule Not Guidance
/in News /by administratorPresident Barack Obama Tuesday quietly signed into law legislation to ensure any federal standards governing screening, testing, or treatment of individuals operating commercial motor vehicles for sleep disorders would be through a rulemaking instead of guidance, which has previously been the case.
BLOOMBERG: What’s in Store for the Long Haul Trucking?
/in News /by administratorVIDEO: Primm Fox discusses markets, investing and business. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.”
THE TRUCKER: American Central Transport Takes First Place in Truck Safety Category
/in News /by administratorAmerican Central Transport has taken first place in the General Commodities Truckload/Line-Haul Division/Between 20-50 Million Miles Category in American Trucking Associations national truck safety competition. The carrier received its award during ceremonies at the ATA Safety Management Council’s 2013 Safety and Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition held recently at Sparks, Nevada.
GPS WORLD: “XRS Teams with Samsung, Verizon on Trucking Fleet Package”
/in News /by administratorXRS Corporation, a mobile trucking intelligence company, has announced that Verizon is the official wireless provider for its new collaboration with Samsung Telecommunications America. The new product — NXT — creates what XRS says is the first integrated mobile device and software package designed specifically for the trucking industry.
KCRG-TV9: Truck Driver Shortage Has Companies Offering Incentives, Schools Fighting Stereotypes
/in News /by administratorAt Kirkwood Community College, trucking experts said retiring baby boomers and new trucking safety regulations in 2010, called CSA, have shrunk the driver pool. It’s created a void that isn’t being filled by young people. “It’s hard to fill those positions that are now gone. The younger generation doesn’t find it very appealing,” said Kirkwood’s Transportation Supervisor Freddie Jones.