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ATA economy panel: Low GDP growth, higher costs will pressure carrier margins
More of the same from the economy, with a real chance for rate traction just over the next hill: thatās the message delivered ā yet again ā by a panel of experts during this yearās crystal ball session at the American Trucking Associationsā Management Conference and Exhibition. Until the delicately balanced supply-and-demand scale tilts truckingās way, the bottom line for carriers is to continue to guard the bottom line.
October 21, 2013
Business
OmniTracs enhances TMW integrations, CER application
Omnitracs, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated and a provider of integrated wireless systems, applications and services to transportation and logistics companies, announced integration enhancements to shared customers using integrated TMW Systems and Omnitracs platforms. Omnitracs also added two enhancements to its Critical Event Reporting (CER) application:Ā Over Speed Events and integrated Following Time Violation [ā¦]
October 21, 2013
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SmartDrive adds data from active safety systems to event recording platform
SmartDrive Systems, a provider of driving performance systems that reduce collisions and improve fuel efficiency, announced at the American Trucking Associationsā Annual Management Conference & Exhibition the addition of active safety system data elements to its SmartDrive Safety program via direct integration to its data and video event recording platform. The integration expands the capabilities [ā¦]
October 20, 2013
Business
Mobileye joins Enhancement Box with collision avoidance system
Mobileye, a provider of collision avoidance systems, has made the Enhancement Box available as a companion product to its 5 series collision avoidance system. The Enhancement Box can be used to automatically activate different functions of the vehicle, such as turning on the hazard lights or turning off the radio, when safety alerts are generated. [ā¦]
October 17, 2013
Business
Marty Fletcher joins SmartDrive Systems
SmartDrive Systems, a provider of driving performance systems that reduce collisions and improve fuel efficiency, announced that Marty Fletcher has joined its management team as a Strategic Program Manager.Ā Mr. Fletcher brings over 40 years of engineering experience in the automotive and trucking industries. A fuel efficiency specialist, specifically in the combination of vehicle systems, [ā¦]
October 17, 2013
Business
Nominate your drivers for Overdrive-TCA driver of the year competition
The nomination period for the 2013 Driver of the Year and Owner-Operator of the Year ā run by the Truckload Carriers Association and CCJ sister site Overdrive ā is open until Monday, Oct. 21.
October 16, 2013
Business
Helping your drivers, employees understand āObamacareā
How can your employees benefit from the Affordable Care Act? Also, what can you do to better inform them about the complicated law? Hereās a look.
October 16, 2013
Business
Freightliner execs personally deliver 25,000th Schneider truck
Few things say āthank youā like a big truck. Make it a big orange truck loaded with the latest technologies and driver features, and youāve got reason to celebrate. Such was the case in Green Bay, Wis., today when representatives from Freightliner Trucks, a division of Daimler Trucks North America, paid a visit to customer [ā¦]
October 16, 2013
Business
Meritor āGoes Pinkā for breast cancer awareness
For the third consecutive year, Meritor is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month during October. The company demonstrated its commitment to the āGo Pinkā movement on Oct. 12 and 13 when Meritor MotorSports-sponsored truck driver Ellen Lohr raced a pink-wrapped Buggyra truck in the Federation Internationale de lāAutomobile (FIA) European Truck Racing Championship in Le Mans, [ā¦]
October 15, 2013
Business
Transport America specs Freightliner In-Cab Training system for new fleet trucks
Transport Corporation of America, Inc. (Transport America), one of the largest for-hire carriers in North America, recently ordered the Freightliner In-Cab (FIT) System for a portion of its fleet. Developed by Freightliner Trucks in collaboration with Rolling Strongā¢, the FIT System is the first-ever OEM designed and integrated in-cab exercise and flexibility system. The FIT [ā¦]
October 14, 2013
Business
Trucker strike, protest convoy mostly deemed a bust
The Ride for the Constitution driver protest convoy scheduled for Friday, Oct. 11, has largely been deemed a bust, having little effect on traffic and failing to gain much attention from lawmakers, as it intended, reports from D.C. say.
October 14, 2013
Business
Pro-Tread training goes mobile
Instructional Technologies, Inc. announced that its Pro-Tread driver training is now available via smartphones and tablets, to go along with access onĀ computers and onboard devices from PeopleNet, Omnitracs, and Rand-McNally. Clients can access Pro-Tread on smartphones and tablets starting Nov. 1. āWhether a fleet issues company-owned mobile devices, or expects drivers toĀ bring their own device, [ā¦]
October 11, 2013
Business
How data, dispatch software can push automated dispatch, driver rewards
Part 3 of the āTurning Data into Actionā series breaks down how dispatch software systems can help implement instant rewards for drivers and automated dispatch
July 29, 2013
Business
Truck drivers near top of āHardest-to-Fillā jobs for employers
Itās not just your fleet thatās having trouble hiring drivers, says a recent report from CareerBuilder, who ranked truck driver as the third āHardest-to-Fill Positionā in the country.
July 22, 2013
Business
Driver turnover increases in first quarter of 2013
Driver turnover is pushing the 100 percent ceiling once again, according to the American Trucking Associations, as large truckload fleets in the first quarter of 2013 experienced a driver turnover rate of 97 percent, said ATA in a report this week.
July 11, 2013
Business
Technology brings business intelligence to the cab
Drivers now have at their disposal the same real-time information fleet managers see, allowing them to see their performance and make adjustments accordingly.
June 28, 2013
Business
Driver shortage garnering national attention
CNN Money is the latest national news outlet to cover the looming driver shortage and the impact of changing hours-of-service rules.
June 14, 2013
Business
Carriers favoring sign-on bonuses, performance-based driver pay
Nearly half of carriers are offering sign-on bonuses, compared to only 12 percent two years ago, consultant Gordon Klemp told trucking fleet executives today during the 2013 CCJ Spring Symposium in Birmingham, Ala.
May 22, 2013
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