Atlas Van Lines map shows where America moved in 2012
The annual Migration Patterns survey from Atlas Van Lines found in 2012 that the Southwest and Mid-Atlantic states continue to grow as destinations for Americans on the move. The results of the study were released ...
Trucking adds 4,200 jobs in December
For-hire trucking companies added 4,200 payroll jobs in December on a seasonally adjusted basis as the overall economy added 155,000 nonfarm jobs, according to the latest estimates released Jan. 4 by the Bureau of Labor ...
Liter Fever: The battle between 13-liter and 15-liter engines
The dust has settled, and two engines dominate today’s North American heavy-duty truck market. Which one is right for you?
For all the styling cues and creature comforts manufacturers design into today’s trucks, nothing defines the ...
Congress votes to continue biodiesel tax incentive
As part of a year-end fiscal package — the bill made to avert the "fiscal cliff," Congress passed reinstated the biodiesel tax incentive that had expired Dec. 31, 2011, for both 2012 and 2013. President ...
Diesel price drops half a cent
Still hovering just below the $4 mark, the national average price for a gallon of diesel was $3.918 for the week ended Dec. 31 — a 0.5 cent drop from the previous week, according to ...
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Join your peers at the CCJ Spring Symposium, May 20-22, at the Ross Bridge Resort, Birmingham, Ala., for compelling speakers covering ObamaCare’s effect on carriers, an outlook for trucking presented by ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello, an executive panel covering the pitfalls of independent contractor misclassification, and exciting keynote addresses and networking opportunities. The early bird registration rate has been extended until May 1st for all CCJ readers. Enter promo code CCJ at checkout and receive $200 off the $595 registration fee. Registration includes all sessions, meals, accommodations and golf/spa.
Short-term agreement reached to sidestep port strikes
According to the Federal Mediation and Concilation Service, which was mediating the United States Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen's Association labor negotiations, the two parties have come to an agreement that will avert the ...
Preventable or Not? Doe’s rig goes slip-sliding away
John Doe’s lunch at the Roughrider Truck Stop outside Billings, Mont., had been enlivened by Bobby “Flatbed” Braswell’s tale of a tractor-trailer driver who’d fallen asleep at the wheel and rear-ended a passenger vehicle. Sued ...
What happens if America’s trucks stop moving?
CCJ publisher Randall-Reilly examines the question in depth with its infographic "Truckpocalypse," showing the toll that a disruption to the transportation industry would have on water supply, hospitals, food, merchandise, fuel and the economy as ...
Navistar reports $2.8 billion loss in 4Q
Navistar announced Wednesday, Dec. 19, a net loss of $2.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, stemming mostly from a non-cash tax expense of $2 billion from an increase in deferred tax valuation allowance ...
NY Thruway axes truck toll hike plan
The New York Thruway Authority has abandoned plans to raise truck tolls by 45 percent.
On Dec. 17, Thruway Authority Executive Director Thomas Madison presented a new plan regarding Thruway finances that eliminated the hike the ...
CSA'S Data Trail
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Risk & Reward, Part 3: Industry, FMCSA at odds over CSA
Trucking advocates have said that CSA does not allow all carriers to play on a level field. FMCSA argues otherwise. Whose argument ...
Infographic: Small Fleets loom large on inspectors’ radar
CSA’s crash flaw: Enforcement, accident rates do not mesh
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