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Fleet panel: Experience with e-logs overwhelmingly positive
Fleet executives at the CCJ Summer Symposium agree: The process of implementing e-logs was not cheap and did not occur quickly. But, their experiences implementing electronic logging devices have been overwhelmingly positive for their businesses, customers and drivers.
June 24, 2014
Business
An honorable trade
There was a time when being a driver was considered a highly skilled trade. True – the automobile was brand new. And given the mysterious and cantankerous nature of cars at the time, a “driver” was typically understood to be a mechanic as well. In other words, someone so attuned into the intricacies of the […]
June 20, 2014
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ProSight insurance teams up with SmartDrive
ProSight SpecialtyInsurance (“ProSight”), an insurance provider for the transportation industry, announced SecureFleet, a complimentary risk management system that uses SmartDrive’s video-based event recorder and driver management system. The offering was developed exclusively for ProSight’s niche transportation customers.
June 20, 2014
Business
Federal appeals court rules against independent contractor status in Calif. case
An appeals court June 16 ruled that drivers working for Georgia-based carrier Affinity Logistics — but working in California — were not independent contractors, as the fleet argued, but were employees, due to the control the carrier had over its drivers’ work.
June 17, 2014
Business
Schneider honors new Hall of Fame Drivers
There’s no better way to glorify the greats than a hall of fame. Football superstars are enshrined annually in Canton, Ohio. Mere miles away in Cleveland, rock and roll influencers and trendsetters are celebrated for their contributions to music. Now Schneider, one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, is following suit and honoring legends in […]
June 12, 2014
Business
Train and hire a vet
Company: E.L. Hollingsworth & Co., Flint, Mich. 2013 CCJ Top 250 rank: 183 Industry segment: General freight 2012 revenues: $96 million Revenue change vs. 2011: 27.3 percent Power units: 590 Trailers: 976 Drivers: 617 With the big drawdown of troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last couple of years, lots of […]
June 9, 2014
Business
Con-Way Freight honors 3 million mile safe driver
Con-way Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW), today announced that professional driver, David Frazier, surpassed the career milestone of driving 3 million consecutive, accident-free miles. Frazier, who started with Con-way in 1987, is the fourth of Con-way Freight’s 15,000 drivers nationwide to reach this safe-driving achievement. He joins the […]
June 5, 2014
Business
Trucking groups pen list of suggestions, concerns for FMCSA’s clearinghouse rule
Trucking groups voiced both a list of concerns and requested changes to the proposed Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse rule prior to the May 21 end date of the public comment period on the rule. Some key stakeholders seem divided over the direction the agency should take before finalizing and implementing the rule.
May 29, 2014
Business
Con-Way Truckload buys 540 tractors equipped with automatic transmissions
Con-way Truckload, a full truckload carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc.  announced its purchase of 550 new tractors, 540 of which will be equipped with automatic transmissions and all with driver-preferred 6×4 axles, in a replacement cycle that will maintain the company’s 2,700-tractor fleet as one of the youngest and most modern in the truckload […]
May 28, 2014
Business
Watchdog report criticizes DOD hazmat shipping, use of CSA
When it comes to hazmat, the Department of Defense is sometimes a careless, carrier-unfriendly shipper – and instances of denying truck drivers access to secure parking could be catastrophic, a recent oversight report concludes. The report also cautions that CSA has shortcomings as a tool for DOD’s carrier selection process.
May 28, 2014
Business
Omnitracs to host free safety webinar, May 29
Omnitracs, a provider of integrated wireless systems, applications and services to transportation and logistics companies, will host a live, interactive webinar, titled “Reduce Your Risks—Enhance Your Safety Program,” on Thursday, May 29 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
May 22, 2014
Business
CCJ Symposium panel: Driver respect, setting proper expectations key to recruiting, retention
On Tuesday, May 20, a panel of fleet executives at the CCJ Spring Symposium in Franklin, Tenn., provided attendees with a wide-ranging discussion of strategies to find and keep drivers.
May 20, 2014
Business
KS Industries selects SmartDrive Systems’ video-based safety program
SmartDrive Systems announced that KS Industries, LP, a leading provider of engineering, fabrication, maintenance, and construction services, has deployed SmartDrive’s event recording system across its fleet of high-risk, high-profile vehicles to proactively reduce collisions and improve safety.
May 16, 2014
Business
Trucking industry expects hiring hike, many think HOS won’t impact driver numbers
In a recent survey of transportation professionals, 79 percent expected growth in their total workforce, but 58 percent of respondents thought driver staffing levels would be unaffected by the current hours-of-service regulations.
May 14, 2014
Business
Survey: driver safety, cost savings are top fleet concerns
A survey by GE Capital Fleet Services found that driver safety is the biggest priority of fleet managers. This survey, conducted at the 2014 NAFA Institute and Expo, had more than a third (35 percent) of fleet managers identify this as their main concern ahead of cost-savings goals and workforce productivity.
May 13, 2014
Business
Study: video-based safety programs could save 800 lives annually
Lytx, Inc. (formerly DriveCam Inc.), a global provider of delivering driver safety and compliance systems, announced that a new study of heavy truck and bus collisions conducted by The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) found that its video-based driver safety program has the potential to dramatically save lives and reduce injuries.
May 8, 2014
Business
Survey: Driver availability issues now hindering fleet equipment purchases
In answer to multiple questions regarding the current operating environment, many and varied types of trucking fleets report that the inability to find and retain qualified drivers is hindering their ability to grow and add equipment. That’s the conclusion of the Q2 2014 Fleet Sentiment Report survey, conducted in April by CK Commercial Vehicle Research.
May 6, 2014
Business
Elephants, blind monks and the genius of FMCSA’s pointless advisory committee
Leave it to the combined efforts of Congress and the federal bureaucracy to come up with a perfect vehicle for getting nothing done: the advisory committee system. For a mere $250,000 per year, FMCSA brings together many of the groups which usually have the agency pinned in a federal court crossfire and lets them face off with each other.
May 6, 2014
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