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Light- and medium-duty focus: Package Fleets

Productive Packages Evolving UPS, FedEx package fleets deliver productivity gains, fuel economy By John G. Smith Dale Spencer admits that UPS package vehicles look similar from one model year to the next. “There’s only so much you can do with a shoebox,” says the company’s director of maintenance ...

By John G. Smith Published September 1, 2012

Trucking’s Top Rookie recognized

Gordon Keith Redvay, a driver for Crete Carrier, was named Trucking’s Top Rookie by Randall-Reilly Business Media and Information, in conjunction with several supporting sponsors, at The Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Texas, on Friday Aug. 24. Brad Bentley, editorial director of Recruiting Media Group, ...

By Kathleen Buccleugh Published August 24, 2012

uShip to expand into commercial freight market

At the Great American Trucking Show on Friday, Aug. 24, uShip announced an expansion into the commercial freight market with the soon-to-be-released uShip Pro platform. Currently about 70 percent of uShip’s online auction-style freight moving service comes for the consumer side. “Since 2004, about 30 percent ...

By Randy Grider Published August 24, 2012

Light- and medium-duty focus: Utility trucks

Big Apple, big fleet New York City is embracing common specs, biodiesel for utility vehicle orders New York City has one of America’s most diverse municipal fleets. It owns or leases 27,000 vehicles supported by 150 maintenance facilities and 400 in-house fueling locations. The municipality spends a ...

By By John G. Smith Published August 3, 2012

Viewpoint

Industry response to the EOBR provision in the highway funding legislation signed into law on July 6 “This legislation, while not all we could have hoped for as an industry and as users of the highway system, makes tremendous strides in the safety arena and puts ...

By CCJ Staff Published August 3, 2012

Recruit and Retain

With Anderson Trucking Service Vice President of Driver Recruiting Oscar Kleman Location: St. Cloud, Mo. Drivers: 1,200 total Power units: 2,100 Trailers: 6,130 Anderson Trucking Service goes fishing By Carolyn Magner Mason Oscar Kleman, vice president of driver recruiting for Anderson Trucking Service, says the St. Cloud, Minn.-based heavy-haul company has had ...

By admin Published August 1, 2012

Truck Gauge: Digging into the CCJ Top 250

Deeper analysis reveals some interesting tidbits As you surely have noticed by now, this issue of Commercial Carrier Journal features the CCJ Top 250, our annual ranking of the largest for-hire trucking companies. To whet your appetite for the editorial package that starts on page 60, ...

By Avery Vise Published August 1, 2012

Technology

Calling All Devices Mobile management adds security, flexibility to enterprise IT There was a time – perhaps only recently – when fleets purchased mobile devices for only one reason: to capture information from vehicles and drivers. Then came smartphones and tablet devices. Now all employees want to ...

By Aaron Huff Published August 1, 2012

CCJ Innovators: A Toast to Safety

Rocha Transportation Ceres, Calif. Like the wine products it hauls, Rocha and its safety program get better with age By Jeff Crissey For most large truckload carriers, spending hundreds of thousands – or even millions – of dollars on safety programs is considered a cost of doing business to ...

By admin Published August 1, 2012