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SmartDrive adds 4-camera option to driver safety system
SmartDrive Systems, a provider of video-based driving performance systems, announced new camera configuration options to obtain a 360-degree view of the vehicle.
October 6, 2014
Business
Long Haul Trucking to deploy DriveCam fleetwide
Lytx, Inc. (formerly DriveCam Inc.), a global provider of delivering video-based driver safety and compliance systems, announced that Long Haul Trucking, Inc. has deployed its DC Protect program, part of the DriveCam powered by Lytx family of products. The Minnesota-based company trialed the program for several months and took advantage of Lytx’s combination of video, […]
October 6, 2014
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Stay Metrics creates scientific board to research driver retention issues
Stay Metrics has formed a three-member Scientific Advisory Board to be led by Dr. Timothy Judge, the company’s Director of Research.
September 30, 2014
Business
M&W Transportation deploys SmartDrive fleetwide
SmartDrive Systems announced that M&W Transportation Company, Inc. (M&W), a family-owned, asset-based truckload carrier deployed SmartDrive’s video-based safety program across its fleet.
September 29, 2014
Business
Can Automatic Transmissions Attract New Driving Talent to Trucking?
The basic question here seems pretty simple: If you’re running a fleet, which is more important: Your desire (or need) to run manual transmissions, or your need for drivers?
September 26, 2014
Business
Hino hosts 6th annual Technician Challange
Hino Trucks held their sixth annual National Service Skills Competition at their training facility in Novi, Michigan last week. The Skills Competition brings together the best of the best dealer service technicians from across the country that achieved Master Elite Technician status and puts them head-to-head against each other in varying simulated service-related situations. The […]
September 25, 2014
Business
Mack renews Share the Road sponsorship
Mack Trucks announced today it would again sponsor the American Trucking Associations Share the Road program, marking 13 years of continuous Mack support for the safety education effort. As part of the sponsorship, Mack will provide a 2014 Mack Pinnacle sleeper model. “Our customers depend on Mack Trucks to get the job done safely,” said Stephen Roy, […]
September 25, 2014
Business
Combating communication and distraction: Panel talks phones’ role in distracting truck drivers
TMC fleet panel looks at how communication innovations breed more distractions.
September 24, 2014
Business
TMC fleet exec panel: Labor force average age must come down
If fleets are going to survive long-term, their labor force is going to have to get younger.
September 24, 2014
Business
FMCSA-certified med examiners to set up shop at truck stops for DOT-required physicals
The newly formed Truck Stop Health Care announced Sept. 23 it will be placing certified medical examiners in truck stops in every U.S. state. TSHC says the move will help drivers more easily access DOT-certified medical examiners to perform the federally required bi-yearly physical.
September 23, 2014
Business
Supply chain pros believe truckers no longer ‘crying wolf’ on driver shortage
In a standing-room-only conference session, the moderator asked for a show of hands: How many in the crowd truly believed that there was a shortage of truck drivers, that it’s not just “carrier rhetoric” to drive rate increases?
September 23, 2014
Business
Omnitracs Analytics shares 5 tips for happy drivers
Omnitracs Analytics (formally FleetRisk Advisors) has put together a list of quick tips to help fleet managers foster long-lasting and trusting relationships with drivers
September 19, 2014
Business
Judge allows drivers’ case against Wal-Mart to continue, grants class-action certification
A federal court in California has ruled a lawsuit brought by drivers against Wal-Mart Transportation may proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The driver plaintiffs claim that between 1993 and now, they did not receive the minimum wage required by state law, nor were they allowed to take their state-required meal and rest breaks.
September 17, 2014
Business
Teamsters win first vote at Con-way
The Teamsters had its first success at Con-way after drivers and dock workers at the company’s Laredo, Texas, terminal voted 55-49 to join the union. The Sept. 12 vote marked the first time employees at one of the transportation and logistics company’s 500 locations join the Teamsters. In California, the union has filed to organize […]
September 17, 2014
Business
Double Coin and CMA notify NHTSA of non-compliant sidewall markings on tire models
Double Coin and CMA formally notified the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) last month of non-compliant sidewall markings on certain Double Coin branded TBR tires produced by Double Coin Holdings, LLC. After a full audit in June 2014, CMA notified NHTSA that certain Double Coin tires omitted the Load Range symbol. As confirmed by […]
September 16, 2014
Business
Hub Group changes driver model in California, offers to settle IC suits
Facing a pair of lawsuits over worker misclassification, intermodal giant Hub Group Inc. will be converting its drayage drivers in California from independent contractors to employees, the $3.4 billion company reported this week.
September 11, 2014
Business
What drivers want, Part 2: Money, respect key factors in attracting and keeping drivers
What do drivers want? It’s the defining question for carriers today. CCJ sought to find an answer to that question and surveyed drivers to hear it first hand. Here’s what we found.
September 10, 2014
Business
What do drivers want? CCJ survey reveals the answers
To find out what is making it hard to attract drivers or forcing existing drivers out of the industry, Commercial Carrier Journal decided to ask drivers themselves about the frustrations, desires, dreams and nightmares of working in the trucking industry today. Here’s what they said.
September 9, 2014
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