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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/o-trucker-where-art-thou Every week, hosts Dan Moss, Kate Smith and Scott Lanman bring you a jargon-free dive into the stories that drive the global economy. How tight is the U.S. labor market? So much that one trucking company is offering $5,000 signing bonuses to lure new drivers. Yet millions of Americans remain out of the workforce people

http://www.pratttribune.com/business/20161020/efficient-farmers-produce-surplus-grain New mountains are changing the landscape across Kansas but they're not made of soil or stone. These are mountains of grain that elevators are storing on the ground because prices, markets and demand for grain have combined to make a stagnant market where grain is not moving.

http://www.todaystrucking.com/plant-closure-leaves-manitoba-hauler-out-nearly-500k HEADINGLY, MB One hundred and sixty people are out of work, a Manitoba trucking company is out nearly $500,000, and another 27 subcontracted trucking companies could be out cash, too, after a power transmission line manufacturer in Texas closed its doors last month.

http://www.advisen.com/tools/fpnproc/fpns/articles_new_1/P/268186114.html?rid=268186114&list_id=1 Truckers are finding it harder and costlier to line up coverage for their fleets, as a wave of blockbuster payouts over accidents pushes insurers out of the market. The number of people killed in accidents involving large trucks fell 20% in the last decade, ac

http://www.truckingnewsonline.com/regulations/fmcsa-compliance-doesnt-always-add-up-to-trucking-safety/ In some trucking companies, the words safety and compliance are used interchangeably. The line that divides these two areas has been further blurred as focus has been placed on CSA numbers by federal regulators. But you shouldnt be fooled by simply

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8d45c953-4155-4fc6-8f3a-9dbda184638f In Spring 2016, the FDA released its long-awaited Final Rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food (the "Rule"). The regulation, which constitutes one of seven final rules implementing the Food Safety and Modernization Act ("FSMA"), was closely watched by many throughout the industry--and for good

Denver, CO and Nixa, MO. October 10, 2016. PanXchange, Inc, an electronic negotiation and trading platform for physical commodities, and Bulkloads, LLC, a web-based platform that connects commodity trucking supply with traders seeking transport for bulk raw grains, announced a strategic alliance today. Both companies are using the power of technology to provide commodity producers, processors and traders with more operating efficiency and new profit opportunities via computers and sma

http://www.hpj.com/bergmeier/partnership-venture-opens-new-opportunity-for-distillers-grains/article_8ad7c829-3895-50ef-9fb4-ff68a8d82994.html The quest to find a better way to market grain has led a Nebraska company to manufacture cubed and pelleted distillers grain and to sell technology to allow other firms to share in the

http://www.joc.com/trucking-logistics/truckload-freight/us-truck-tonnage-truckload-rates-take-tumble_20161018.html There may be clouds on the far horizon for US shippers concerned about surface transportation rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but for now the pricing barometer is holding steady. Both US truck tonnage and truck pricing appear t

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20161018/trucking-association-rallies-against-tolls WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Saying truck tolls will raise the price of everything Rhode Islanders buy, Rhode Island Trucking Association leaders urged voters to dismiss from office any legislator who voted for the tolls.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucking-semi-industry-recruiting-retirees-commercial-drivers-accidents/ Americas trucking industry is facing a severe driver shortage. One estimate says about 48,000 drivers are needed to move 70 percent of the nations goods. Companies are aggressively recruiting retirees. Drivers more than 65 years old make up about 1

http://www.joc.com/trucking-logistics/truckload-freight/jb-hunt-transport-services/low-rates-cut-profits-intermodal-trucker-jb-hunt_20161017.html Falling truck and intermodal pricing cut into profits at J.B. Hunt Transport Services in the third quarter, despite increases in freight volume and revenue. The 5 percent drop in net prof

http://www.supplychainbrain.com/content/blogs/think-tank/blog/article/advice-for-shippers-facing-rising-freight-rates-in-2017/ A message to shippers who have been paying rock-bottom rates for truck transport over the last couple of years: next year, that ride is likely to come to an end. Truckload carriers, seeking to boost profitabi

http://www.lewiscountyherald.com/long-time-trucker-fannin-now-a-freight-agent Billy Fannin started driving trucks some time back and hes recently shifted to a higher gear by stepping into the freight brokerage business. Im the first licensed freight broker in Lewis County, Fannin said. I decided to graduate from driving dump trucks to semi trucks when I

http://dnews.com/opinion/letter-costs-of-grain-by-barge/article_88bd639e-6216-50c1-a2d0-f1c027f66e96.html In an Idaho Statesman Op-Ed column Joe Anderson of Genesee writes he "prefers" shipping his wheat by barge. Does Joe understand who pays most of the costs so he can exercise this preference? Taxpayers paid the Army Corps' $17 million in sediment management planning costs and more than $10 million for the latest dredging through the Snake/Clearwater confluence to the Port of Lewist

https://www.trucks.com/2016/10/17/schneider-national-california-truckers-lawsuit/ Schneider National Carriers Inc. will pay $28 million to settle a long-standing dispute over wages for meal and rest breaks for drivers in California. The settlement, disclosed last week, ends a class-action lawsuit filed in 2008 by drivers who said they were not paid for breaks or for waiting at do

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-transportation-truckers-idUSKBN12E198 A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by keeping tired drivers off the road. It may also drive smaller trucking firms out of business. A trucking industry survey earlier this year of mostly small operators found that 8

http://www.journalreview.com/article_2e884df2-91bc-11e6-a00d-476d73950bf9.html Harvest is fully underway in Montgomery County. Combines are chugging along harvesting corn and soybeans, semis full of grain are lining up at the local grain elevators, and grain is traveling to places far and wide via our local highways and railways.

http://www.trucknews.com/transportation/latest-forecast-shows-growth-trucking/1003074457/ ARLINGTON, Va. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) released the latest edition of its look into the future of freight transportation, U.S. Freight Transportation Forecast to 2027 today. The report showed growth in both overall freight volumes and in the amount of goods

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161013/piles-of-harvested-grain-more-indicative-that-price-isnt-right By David Blanchette, Correspondent With combines in the field day and night and huge piles of corn stacking up near grain elevators, people may be under the impression that central Illinois farmers are having another

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/10/14/429340.htm A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by keeping tired drivers off the road.

http://www.americanshipper.com/main/news/dot-orders-georgia-trucking-company-to-cease-opera-65649.aspx?source=Little4#hide The U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Industrial Transit, a trucking company based out of LaGrange, Ga., is a threat to public safety and has ordered the company to ce

http://blogs.lawyers.com/attorney/trucking-accidents/the-danger-of-hiring-bad-truck-drivers-38501/ 18 wheelers and large commercial vehicles can do some serious damage on the highway. The size of these vehicles makes them moving wrecking balls on the road. Putting a bad driver behind the wheel only makes these vehicles more dangerous. For trucking companies, the danger of hirin

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-12/railroads-earnings-turmoil-deepens-as-trucks-poach-freight Railroads lost cargo to trucks in the third quarter, adding to a yearlong slide in profits as demand tumbled for coal, oil and metals. Intermodal cargo, goods hauled in containers, fell a second consecutive quarter for the first time since 2009,

https://www.trucks.com/2016/10/12/trucking-industry-weak-freight-demand-2017/ Truck manufacturers are laying off workers, carriers are cancelling orders for new vehicles, and shipping rates and volumes are slumping. Put

https://www.trucks.com/2016/10/11/trucking-ceo-moyes-swift-transportation/ When Jerry Moyes, the feisty entrepreneur who built Swift Transportation from one truck into a $4-billion business, retires at the end of this year, his exit from the trucking business will be lamented by some in the industry and celebrated by others. The 72-year-old Moyes, who declined to be interviewed, co-foun

County: Watch those heavy harvest loads http://columbustelegram.com/banner-press/news/county-watch-those-heavy-harvest-loads/article_f75d8383-190e-5cec-8361-3413e7f091d6.html The size and hauling capacity of farm equipment has grown dramatically in the past decade or so.

http://www.joc.com/trucking-logistics/truckload-freight/schneider-national/schneider-national-largest-private-us-trucking-firm-plans-ipo_20161010.html Schneider National plans to turn to Wall Street for financing next year in an initial public offering that will restructure the largest privately owned truckin

http://wbaa.org/post/soybean-barge-company-expands-ohio-river-processing-plant#stream/0 A major soybean distributor will spend more than $30 million to expand its operations on the Ohio River. Consolidated Grain & Barge, or CGB, is aiming to capitalize on growing export markets in countries like China by expanding its plant at the Port of Indiana-Mt.