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Carriers favoring sign-on bonuses, performance-based driver pay
Gordon Klemp spoke to a group fleet executives May 21 in Birmingham, Ala., at the 2013 CCJ Spring Symposium about trends in driver pay.
Nearly half of carriers are offering sign-on bonuses, compared to only ...
Pilot hit with 7th lawsuit, sued in Florida by owner-operator
Pilot Flying J has been sued for at least the seventh time after federal allegations arose in the middle of last month that the truck stop chain had systematically and intentionally withheld millions of dollars ...
ATA’s Tonnage Index down from March, but up 4.3% year over year
According to numbers reported this week in the American Trucking Associations' monthly For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, April's index reading was 4.3 percent higher than the same month in 2012 — the largets year-over-year gain since ...
Business intelligence helps to keep score, modernize workflow
Mesilla Valley Transport's Mike Kelly gave a seminar session Tuesday, May 21, discussing business intelligence for fleets at the 2013 CCJ Spring Symposium in Birmingham, Ala.
Nine years ago, Mike Kelley unleashed a hungry beast ...
Class 8 orders surging, up 36 percent from April 2011
In topping April 2012's truck order numbers by 36 percent, April 2013's Class 8 orders totaled 23,200 — the seventh month in a row that orders were above the 20,000 mark. Moreover, April's order numbers ...
Live Stream from the CCJ Spring Symposium
Get a peak at the CCJ Spring Symposium sessions in real-time as we live stream from this year's event. We will be streaming two sessions including: "Obamacare's Effect on Carriers" and an executive panel on“The Pitfalls of Independent Contractor Misclassification”. If you are interested in attending the event in Birmingham, we offer both full registration which includes all sessions, meals, hotel, golf/spa or partial registration without hotel.
FMCSA waives hours rules for relief loads to Oklahoma
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has in response to the devastating tornadoes that struck the Oklahoma City area this week lifted hours-of-service rules for drivers carrying loads or materials part of the relief effort ...
Survey: Trucking conditions largely unchanged in April
Business conditions in trucking barely changed in April from March, according to the latest Randall-Reilly MarketPulse survey of trucking conditions. Nearly half -- 48% -- of the MarketPulse panel of for-hire trucking executives reported that ...
ATA’s Costello bullish on trucking’s long-term fortunes
Choppy growth remains the primary characteristic of the U.S. economy at the moment, but that hides a lot of potential that before long could lead to an accelerated recovery and sustained boom in the economy ...
Truck Country founder, Bob McCoy, passes away
Robert L. McCoy, founder of the McCoy Group, Inc., passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at his home in Las Vegas, NV at 86 years of age. The McCoy Group is the largest group Freightliner ...
Diesel price rises 2.4 cents to $3.89
The national retail price for on-highway diesel increased for the second straight week, rising 2.4 cents a gallon to $3.89 during the week ended May 20, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information ...
CSA'S Data Trail
Sponsored by PeopleNet
Risk & Reward, Part 1: How CSA’s data shows discrimination toward small carriers
CCJ takes an in-depth look at data from CSA in its first two years — Here's what it says.
Risk & Reward, Part 2: CSA data shows independents at risk
Crackdown: FMCSA’s putting extra muscle into shutting down truck fleets
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- May 20-22, 2013
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- May 29-30
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- June 25-27, 2013
