Trucking News for July 2007

Jobs in Trucking (64 articles)

• Truckers Want to Track Drivers' Drug Use
  A trucking industry trade group on Wednesday plans to call on Congress to authorize and fund a national database that would track drug and alcohol use on the job by commercial drivers....
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 8:22pm
• Today's Trucking: The Online Business Resource for Canada's Trucking Industry
  Michelin North America has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oliver Rubber Co., a subsidiary of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., which produces tread rubber and retreading equipment. via Today's Trucking...
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 4:43pm
• FleetNet expands maintenance department, Web services
  FleetNet America Inc. said July 25 the company has expanded its TMcare Department. via Trucker...
  Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 7:11pm
• 'Just taking care of people'
  A terminal manager in Charlotte, Mary Day has been working in the trucking business for 17 years....
  Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 5:58am
• Estes Express opens Atoka, Okla., terminal
  ATOKA, Okla. - Estes Express Lines, a provider of both in-depth regional and comprehensive long-haul services, has opened a new terminal in Atoka , Okla. via Trucker...
  Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 4:16am

Truck Drivers News (38 articles)

• Habla Ingles? US truck cops on the lookout for non-English drivers
  U.S. roadside traffic cops are being told by transport authorities to place out-of-service any truck drivers with low English language proficiency. via Today's Trucking...
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 4:34pm
• Dole fined after driver killed in January forklift accident
  Dole fined after driver killed in January forklift accident Arizona's workplace safety agency has fined Dole Food Co. via Land Line Magazine Arizona's workplace safety agency has fined Dole Food Co. for violations found during investigations after the January death of trucker Sheila Ross. The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Dole a total of $9,000 for two violations after wrapping up a six-month investigation, agency director Darin Perkins told Land Line Magazine on Monday, July 30. The company was cited for failing to follow its own policy for pedestrian traffic in the warehouse, Perkins said. Dole was also fined for its forklift operators failing to sound warning horns when driving around corners or going into trailers....
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 5:51am
• The gender roles are reversed
  Men as nurses. Women as truck drivers and professional football players. It may strike you as odd, but the lines that divide men and women's roles in the workforce are blurring. via KTBS-TV Shreveport...
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 5:45am
• York County trucker named best in the state
  A Newberry Township man has been named the best truck driver in Pennsylvania and will compete later this month at the "Superbowl of Safety" in Minneapolis. via York Daily Record...
  Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 8:16pm
• Harbor Truckers for a Sustainable Future Unite to Save Jobs in Response to Controversial Port Plan
  As a new clean air plan threatens more than 10,000 jobs at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, companies and individuals at risk of being forced out of business as a result of the proposed plan have formed the Harbor Truckers for a Sustainable Future (HTSF). The group is a broad based coalition of short haul drayage firms and independent owner operator truckers. via Business Wire The group's key initiatives are to push for a better alternative to the proposed Truck Replacement Plan (TRP), a component of the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), currently under consideration by both ports. If implemented as drafted, the plan will force more than 16,000 independent truckers to give up their trucks and become employees of a handful of large trucking firms. Additionally, more than 1,300 small drayage firms will have to shut down. The proposed plan also threatens thousands more in the trucking services area. The economic effects will ripple out across Southern California and the nation in the form of higher prices on goods. The HTSF says it can not accept any part of the plan as written....
  Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 4:50pm

Trucking in the News (35 articles)

• Effective Control Trucking LLC. Is Pleased to Announce a Contract ... - WM Experts
  Effective Control Trucking LLC. Is Pleased to Announce a Contract ...WM Experts (press release), FL - 17 hours ago... Raphael Huppe is pleased to announce that CAN TV, the parent company of Movilnet, in Venezuela, has signed on with Effective Control Trucking LLC. ...Effective Control Trucking LLC. Reviews the Revenue Model Market Wire (press release)Effective Control Trucking LLC. Announces Corporate Update and ... WM Experts (press release)all 11 news articles...
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 7:25pm
• LETTER: Trucking is a very honorable profession - Hutchinson Leader
  LETTER: Trucking is a very honorable professionHutchinson Leader, MN - 22 hours agoMr. Kyle Kottke of Kottke Trucking in Buffalo Lake wrote in his letter to last Thursday’s Leader, "Remember, if you bought it, a truck brought it and by ......
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 2:39pm
• Call, life cut short - Winnipeg Sun
  Call, life cut shortWinnipeg Sun, Canada - Jul 31, 2007Goertzen, who worked for a Winnipeg trucking outfit, was driving to Calgary when the accident happened about 2 am Sunday. The trucker was supposed to return ...National trucking columnist dies after rig crashes Ottawa Citizen (subscription)all 7 news articles...
  Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 7:43am
• Sector Glance: Trucking - Forbes
  Sector Glance: TruckingForbes, NY - Jul 30, 2007AP 07.30.07, 4:07 PM ET Shares of trucking companies closed mostly higher Monday after a JPMorgan analyst upgraded Knight Transportation and broader markets ......
  Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 8:21pm
• CARB loaded: Proposed laws will affect all over-the-road trucks and ports by 2009
  While most truckers have heard about CARB's limits on diesel-fired APUs, reefers and idling taking effect in 2008, the agency is preparing to enact other laws aimed at tightening the state's greenhouse gas emissions....
  Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 1:36pm

Owner Operator Jobs in Trucking (8 articles)

• This just in...
  Wendy's International has pulled the plug on the 13 Wendy's restaurant franchises in western Massachusetts owned by an Ohio businessman, just as the commonwealth's Attorney General's Office moves in to secure payment for some 450 employees who were abruptly left out of their jobs....
  Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2007 8:41pm
• America's Best-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs
  While being tough to get into, these traditional manufacturing and service fields can be well paid....
  Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2007 10:14pm
• Tampa Bay Area CEO Does It Again, Creates 100 New Jobs in Lakeland, Florida!
  A giant motorsports retail store is set to revolutionize the motorcycle industry in Lakeland!...
  Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2007 7:15pm
• Pest control workers are smarter than the average bug
  It's 90 degrees at 9 a.m. on a Monday. The turquoise pick-up truck out front doesn't have air conditioning, and the man behind the wheel will be driving it to 13 jobs without a break until 5:30 p.m....
  Date: Mon, Jul 16, 2007 3:23pm
• Effects of Lafarge closure expected to trickle down: More jobs on the line
  FLAT BAY More jobs are on the line in the wake of the Corner Brook Lafarge plant’s closing. - Luke Dunphy, part owner of Galen Gypsum, said his company will be affected by the closure of the 55-year-old wall-board manufacturing facility....
  Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 11:37am

Truth in Trucking (2 articles)

• CDL Truck Drivers Carrying Guns
  Professional over the road CDL truck drivers are a unique breed of men and women. Strong, determined and masters of stamina, they keep the life blood of our country moving. Truck driving...
  Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 7:52pm
• Trucking: Is it For You?
  Lets just pretend for a moment, the trucking industry is perfect, all companies treat their employees wonderfully, all driving schools are reasonably priced and give top notch education, and everyone ......
  Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 9:37pm

Truck Drivers News (1 articles)

• Engine Emissions
  As it said it would do earlier this year, the Vancouver Port Authority is implementing tough environmental standards for truckers applying for a licence to access the ports....
  Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2007 5:43pm