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Dec 16, 2014
Grain bin collapses at Britton elevator

BRITTON Officials expect to recover about half of the grain after a 40,000-bushel grain bin collapsed at an elevator in northeastern South Dakota. The bin at the Wheaton Dumont Co-op elevator in Britton developed a leak and collapsed Sunday afternoon. CEO Philip Deal tells the American News that the collapse also destroyed conveyors and other overhead equipment. Wheaton Dumont has elevators in 10 co

Dec 15, 2014
Energy customers shouldn’t take gas trucking ‘poison pill’
Dec 15, 2014
Government Funding Bill Rolls Back Trucker Rest Requirements
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Dec 16, 2014
Grain bin collapses at Britton elevator

BRITTON Officials expect to recover about half of the grain after a 40,000-bushel grain bin collapsed at an elevator in northeastern South Dakota. The bin at the Wheaton Dumont Co-op elevator in Britton developed a leak and collapsed Sunday afternoon. CEO Philip Deal tells the American News that the collapse also destroyed conveyors and other overhead equipment. Wheaton Dumont has elevators in 10 co

Dec 15, 2014
Energy customers shouldn’t take gas trucking ‘poison pill’

FAIRBANKS If you had the choice, which would you choose: A) 5 percent savings on 20 percent of your cost of energy, or B) 50 percent savings on 50 percent of your total cost of energy? If you, like me, chose B, to keep a couple thousand dollars per year in your pocket instead of a couple hundred, then you should read on because critical decisions are about to be made on the Interior Energy Project (IEP). Those decisions, if made incorrectly, will, effectively, pick thous

Dec 15, 2014
Government Funding Bill Rolls Back Trucker Rest Requirements

The spending bill in Congress is not just about money. Tucked inside the bill are provisions to change regulations affecting everything from banking to the environment. One regulatory rollback has those concerned about truck safety especially upset. The regulation is part of a series of rules that spell out the number of hours that long-haul truck drivers, the ones behind the wheel of the big rigs on the interstates, can be on the road. Last year, a rule took effect that require

Dec 15, 2014
Fastest Freight Payments at the Lowest Factoring Rates for the Bulk Industry

Freight factoring company, Smart Freight Funding, helps trucking companies of all sizes keep their trucks moving by getting paid quicker. Smart Freight Funding works with single truck operations, individual owner-operator, and larger companies managing several trucks and drivers. We offer competitive low rates, quick pay, and superb customer service. The team behind Smart Freight Funding has more than 50 years combined driving, dispatching, contracting and accounting experience in t

Dec 13, 2014
Atchison County sheriff: Six people injured after rail car explodes

By Ann Marie Bush and Megan Hart Seven people were injured, two critically, Thursday after an explosion at GBW Rail Services west of Atchison, authorities said. Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie said the explosion occurred at 2 p.m. at 15624 258th Road, near US-59 highway and 258th Road. No deaths have been re

Dec 12, 2014
Grain Train Runs Away From Canadian Farmers

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Dec 12, 2014
Oil Rout Puts $24 Billion of Truck Fuel Savings in Play: Freight

As shippers of everything from toys to tools enjoy as much as $24 billion in savings from lower diesel surcharges next year, trucking companies see an opening to raise freight rates at a pace not seen in about a decade. The American Trucking Associations calculates that each 1-cent drop spurs industrywide annual fuel savings of $350 million. Diesel last week averaged $2.15 a gallon, down from $2.85 in the last 12 months. About 85 percent of the savings goes to shippers through lower fu

Dec 12, 2014
Grain Loading Just Got Easier

Load Judge technology offers efficiency and accuracy Shawn Gengerke was plagued by the triune scourges of grain loadingdust, dirt and darkness. The Groton, S.D., farmer was frustrated by the grind of extra labor, failed technology and ill-health directly related to the inefficiencies of grain loading. I woke up one morning in 2012 and said, Enough. Im going to fix this problem, he says. Gengerke, a fourth-generation farmer and CE

Dec 12, 2014
Grain crisis forcing co-operation across logistics system

A tide of cautious hope for reconciliation is washing through the grain transportation system after a year of fighting.? I think communication is the best thing to solve a problem, John Corey, a dispute resolution specialist with the Canadian Transportation Agency, told the Fields on Wheels conference Dec. 3.? If your car is late for a day or a week, calling the railway and asking whats going on, or better yet, getting a call from the railway telling

Dec 12, 2014
Trucking industry injury rates and costs among the highest says new report

Tumwater Truck drivers have some of the highest rates of workplace injuries in Washington state, according to a new report from the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I). Each year, one in every 13 truck drivers has a work-related injury serious enough that they have to miss work for a period of time. The report, Trucking Industry: Examining Injurie

Dec 11, 2014
Trucker Receives Nearly 22 Years for Tractor-Trailer, Cargo Thefts

A Kansas City, Missouri truck driver was sentenced in federal court on Monday for his role in a 14-year-long conspiracy to steal more than $1 million worth of trucks and trailers and their cargo. Kenneth Ray Borders received 21 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Borders to pay nearly than $1.3 million in restitution to 27 victims. Borders sentence takes into account his previous criminal history of theft of a truck, trailer and ca

Dec 11, 2014
U.S. Department of Transportation Eliminates $1.7 Billion Annual Paperwork Burden for U.S. Trucking Industry

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that, effective Dec. 18, 2014, professional truck drivers will no longer have to comply with a burdensome daily paperwork requirement, saving the trucking industry an estimated $1.7 billion annually without compromising safety.

Dec 11, 2014
LOAD SEMIS FAST AND ACCURATELY

Green flashing lights at The Load Judge display werent a gimmick. The bars mount inside a semitrailer. Add a moisture sensor and a smartphone or tablet app, and you can sit in the cab and watch the trailer load. Blend in corn with different moisture content easily, reps say. The Load Judge was invented by a farmer. Learn more from Leading Edge Industries, Groton, S.D., at 605-397-2020 or www.loadjudge.com.

Dec 10, 2014
Kansas City Trucker Sentenced in Conspiracy to Steal Trucks, Trailers & Cargo

A Kansas City, MO, truck driver was sentenced in federal court Monday for his role in a 14-year-long conspiracy to steal more than $1 million worth of trucks and trailers and their cargo. Kansas City, MO - infoZine - Kenneth Ray Borders, 43, of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays to 21 years and10 months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Borders to pay $1,27

Dec 10, 2014
Trucker fight revived in funding bill

By Keith Laing - 12/08/14 11:59 AM EST A long-running fight over the hours truck drivers can spend on the road is being revived in the government funding bill now before Congress. Lawmakers are debating whether to insert a provision into the so-c

Dec 10, 2014
State Energy Office Awards Nearly $1M to Wis. Trucking Companies

The Department of Administrations State Energy Office announced it is awarding nearly $1 million to 53 Wisconsin motor carriers to help fund diesel truck idling reduction

Dec 10, 2014
Time to Restart Trucking Hours of Service Rules

As Congress works to wrap-up its legislative business this week, the House has an important opportunity to improve road safety and correct a very flawed trucking regulation that the Obama Administration implemented last year. Manufacturers strongly support bipartisan language approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee to be included in the FY 2015 omnibus appropriations conference package that would require further study of the 34-hour trucking Hours of Service restart provision a

Dec 10, 2014
Reduce Manpower by up to 75%

Many companies have benefited by having Martin(r) Vibration Systems and Solutions install an industrial vibrator that replaces manual labor and reduces the amount of manpower needed by as much as 75%. Recently Martin(r) helped a customer waste less time and money by reducing labor costs and eliminating production delays. Martin(r) also helped the bakery be OSHA compliant and set higher safety standar

Dec 10, 2014
More Drowsy, Overworked Truck Drivers

As Congress scrambles this week to reach a year-end budget deal, powerful special interests and their lawmaker-enablers on Capitol Hill are busy inserting favored provisions in the omnibus spending bill with scant regard for potential public harms. An egregious case in point is the rider that Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, is pushing on behalf of trucking interests. This atrocious giveaway would suspend existing Department of

Dec 9, 2014
Fine Against ND Oil Field Trucking Company Lowered

Williston, N.D. (AP) Health Department fines against a trucking company operating in North Dakota's oil fields without a proper license have been dropped from $459,000 to $200,000. The Health Department and Casper, Wyoming-based Black Hills trucking, incorporated came to an agreement Thursday. In April, the Health Department said the company could be fined $1,000 for every day of operation without a proper license. That fine could have run into the millions as the company had been in v

Dec 9, 2014
Colfax, ND Loses Their Grain Elevator to a Large Fire

The grain elevator in Colfax, ND is a loss

Dec 9, 2014
Road Salt Prices Skyrocket As Ohio's Price-Rigging Lawsuit Continues

Its been a warm December, and thats great news for Ohio counties paying high prices for road salt; the cost for many has doubled or tripled after a shortage last winter. Meanwhile, the attorney general is pushing his legal case against the states two major salt suppliers. Attorney General Mike DeWines office filed suit in 2012 alleging that for years, M

Dec 9, 2014
Are You Tired of Waiting to get Paid for your Loads?

Freight factoring company, Smart Freight Funding, helps trucking companies of all sizes keep their trucks moving by getting paid quicker. Smart Freight Funding works with single truck operations, individual owner-operator, and larger companies managing several trucks and drivers. We offer competitive low rates, quick pay, and superb customer service. The team behind Smart Freight Funding has more than 50 years combined driving, dispatching, contracting and accounting experience in t

Dec 8, 2014
DOT chief Foxx asks lawmakers not to suspend 34-hour restart

The Trucker News Services 12/5/2014 WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Thursday sent a strongly-worded letter to several members of the Senate and House Appropriations committees asking them not to include language suspending the 34-hour restart provision of the Hours of Service rule. Although he didnt say, it is quite possible the letter was in response to news reports Wednesday that said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, wou

Dec 8, 2014
Former Arrow Trucking president indicted

Executive Officer and President of Arrow Trucking Company, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Dallas on bank fraud and tax fraud charges stemming from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations. Jonathan Leland Moore, former Chief Financial Officer of Arrow Trucking Company, previously waived indictment and pleaded guilty on December 4, 2014, to an one-count information charging him with conspiring to commit bo

Dec 8, 2014
DOT secretary against longer hours for truck drivers

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is urging Senate and House Appropriations committee members to reject an amendment that would allow semi-truck drivers to drive for longer hours. In a letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, on Thursday, Foxx said drivers need adequate rest to keep themselves and the other people they share the road with safe. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is pushing an

Dec 8, 2014
New York's Sen. Schumer pushes to eliminate federal loophole to 'chameleon carriers'

The Trucker News Services 12/8/2014 WASHINGTON Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has launched what Schumer calls a push to eliminate a federal loophole that enables dangerous trucking companies who have been shut down or hit with safety violations, including over 500 in upstate New York, to skirt around regulations and avoid federal monitoring by dissolving their trucking company and re-forming it under a new name. These trucking companies, kn

Dec 7, 2014
A Glut Of Grain Clogs Railways, Rivers And Roads

For the Midwests biggest crops, this harvest season was a big one. With winter setting in, the race is on for farmers to ship out their harvest so its not left out to spoil. But the giant harvest and a lack of available rail cars have created a traffic jam on the rails and the highways. Harvest Public Media's Kristofor Husted reports from a barge on the Missouri river. Usually, farmers store their harvest in silos and grain bins, but this year, farmers bro

Dec 5, 2014
House passes bill that could give trucking industry millions in tax breaks

House OKs Restoration of Tax Breaks The House has passed a bill that could give the trucking industry hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks this year for everything from buying new trucks to using natural gas. The 378-46 vote Dec. 3 would retroactively restore for this year alone more than 50 temporary tax breaks that expired in December 2013. One tax break would go to carriers who bought new trucks this year. Under the bill, which has yet to be vote

Dec 5, 2014
Local trucker hauls in $250K lottery prize

Davey Peachy, 58, won $250,000 playing the $250K TriplePlay

Dec 5, 2014
Grain Truck Driver Killed After Collision with Train

UPDATE: ROCKFORD (WIFR) Police say we may never know what caused a fatal train crash that killed a Rockford man this morning. Were learning more about the Rockford truck driver police say was hit by a freight train this morning. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused 61-year-old Michael Burtch to cross the tracks in the path of the train. The crash happened just south of Winnebago, near a business on Alworth Road south of Kelley Road. Police say

Dec 4, 2014
Worker on Missouri farm dies after being buried in grain bin

IDALIA, Mo. * Authorities in southeast Missouri say a farm worker has died after being buried in a grain bin. Dexter Fire Chief Don Seymore tells the Dexter Daily Statesman Kenneth Hurley of Bloomfield was pronounced dead Tuesday at the property north of Idalia. He says Hurley, 54, was running a vacuum to remove the grain when it collapsed beneath him.

Dec 4, 2014
Sparking trailer gave away drunken trucker

BETHLEHEM, Pa. >> Police say an eastern Pennsylvania trucker told officers he may have drunk 9 to 12 beers hours before driving around with his tractor-trailers landing gear down and sparking. Police charged 54-year-old Daniel Pfefferle with driving under the influence after seeing the sparks on Route 512 in Hanover Township. The Express-Times in Easton reports Monday the Easton man told officers he slept for a few hours between d

Dec 4, 2014
Self-driving trucks: How the road ahead may shape up

Proponents of so-called self-driving trucks contend that their enabling technologies will work in concert to cut fuel consumption, reduce emissions and ensure highway safety much more effectively than todays commercial vehicles. Trucks engineered with various levels of self-driving technology are expected will start pulling onto North American roads over the next decade. And

Dec 4, 2014
Senate defeats bill lowering truck weight limits

Mich. Senate defeats bill lowering truck weight limits Lansing The state Senate on Tuesday rejected cutting in half Michigans highest-in-the-nation weight limits for heavy commercial trucks. Sen. Steve Bieda, D-Warren, had proposed lowering the 164,000-pound limit for an 11-axle truck to 80,000 pounds spread across five axles. The Republican-controlled Senate defeated h

Dec 4, 2014
Schumer seeks crackdown on chameleon trucking companies

David Hill, [email protected] | @Ijdavidhill Trucking companies with poor safety records, like the one that owned a truck that crashed in Ithaca in June and killed one person, have been able to repeatedly avoid penalties and being shut down by reincorporating under new names without detection, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday as he pledged to push to close loopholes allowing the practice. Schumer said he is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administratio

Dec 4, 2014
LOAD SEMIS FAST AND ACCURATELY

LOAD SEMIS FAST AND ACCURATELY: Green flashing lights at The Load Judge display werent a gimmick. The bars mount inside a semitrailer. Add a moisture sensor and a smartphone or tablet app, and you can sit in the cab and watch the trailer load. Blend in corn with different moisture content easily, reps say. The Load Judge was invented by a farmer. Learn more from Leading Edge Industries, Groton,

Dec 4, 2014
Fertilizer company makes $1.2 million investment in Marseilles

An Omaha, Neb., commodity management company has purchased 7.2 acres immediately east of Marseilles to expand its existing fertilizer business. Last month, The Gavilon Group paid $1.2 million for the land adjacent to Potash Corporation (PCS Phosphate) from F&W Flying Services off East 2659th Road. Gavilon had been leasing the facility in Marseilles since 1995 as part of its fertilizer operations, according to spokesman Patrick J. Burke. In a written statement, Burke e

Dec 3, 2014
Trucker, company charged after scrap metal spill

BRAMPTON A Brampton trucking company and one of its drivers have been charged after a load of scrap metal spilled onto a highway in northern Ontario last week, the OPP report. West Parry Sound OPP say the load of scrap metal was not properly secured on a truck travelling on Hwy. 69 north of Parry Sound on Nov. 25. Driver Harbhajan Dhanota, 37, of Brampton was charged with having an insecure load and dri

Dec 3, 2014
Ag companies plan joint venture

Trupointe Cooperative Inc. and Cargill Inc. have signed a letter of intent to create a joint venture with their facilities in Milford, Bremen and La Paz, Indiana, - including a $30-million grain elevator. Upon completing due diligence and signing a final agreement, the two companies will combine Trupointes crop inputs assets in Milford with Cargills grain elevators in Bremen and Lapaz. The joint venture dubbed TruHorizons also will include building a grain

Dec 3, 2014
Trucker Says Boss Sexually Harrassed Him

By JOHN BRACKIN (CN) - An Alabama truck driver claims in a federal lawsuit that he was sexually harassed by his male supervisor, then threatened at gunpoint when he sought to report the behavior. In a complaint filed in the federal court in Birmingham, Ala., driver Richard Holley says he was hired by GIBCO Construction in March 2012, and that beginning the following October, he began to receive unwanted sexual attention from Michael Hunt, his supervisor. Holley cla

Dec 3, 2014
Winter weight limits

Saskatchewan winter has a silver lining for shippers. Winter weights are in effect allowing heavier loads to be transported on secondary weight highways. Saskatchewans economic growth is fuelled by exports which are often transported by truck, Highways and Infrastructure Minister Nancy Heppner said. Shippers save time and money during the winter season as frozen road beds can withstand heavier weights. Sub-zero temperatures firm up the

Dec 2, 2014
Charity for North American Truck Drivers and Their Families in Time of Crisis

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Dec 2, 2014
How many freight brokers have left the industry?

One year after the freight broker bond increase: How to surge ahead Eric Halsey - Logistics Although its already been a year since the MAP-21 law came into effect, the freight broker industry is still adjusting to the changes. This law raised the required bond amount from $10,000 to $75,000 in addition to a variety of other modifications to in

Dec 2, 2014
CH Robison to buy Internet-based freight broker Freightquote for $365 million cash

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. Trucking company C.H. Robinson is buying Freightquote.com Inc. for $365 million in cash to expand its e-commerce services. Freightquote, based in Kansas City, Missouri, is an online freight brokerage that C.H. Robinson's CEO, John Wiehoff, said helps smaller businesses find cheaper shipping rates. It employs about 1,000 workers and is expected to post revenue this year of about $124 million. Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based

Dec 2, 2014
US regulators poll public on need for higher trucking insurance

Plans to raise the minimum insurance coverage U.S. trucking companies must maintain to operate could affect hundreds of thousands of trucking companies, large and small, and their shipper customers. However, those plans are likely to proceed slowly, given the current political climate on Capitol Hill and industry opposition to higher minimum levels. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Dec 2, 2014
Freight Factoring Rates as Low as 3% for the Bulk Trucking Industry

Freight factoring company, Smart Freight Funding, helps trucking companies of all sizes keep their trucks moving by getting paid quicker. Smart Freight Funding works with single truck operations, individual owner-operator, and larger companies managing several trucks and drivers. We offer competitive low rates, quick pay, and superb customer service. The team behind Smart Freight Funding has more than 50 years combined driving, dispatching, contracting and accounting experience in t

Dec 1, 2014
As grain trains stall, Siouxland shippers catch a break

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/a1/as-grain-trains-stall-siouxland-shippers-catch-a-break/article_edd9bfac-795d-50fb-b5e1-deca41b189b0.html

Dec 1, 2014
Cyber attacks can funnel through trucking companies to shippers

NEWTON, Mass. Trucking companies may be inadvertently creating security holes in their customers computer networks. A recent study by a number of US firms involved in cyber security has found that many companiesincluding those in the transportation industryhave opened themselves to attack by not properly securing the privileged administrative accounts that are used to run software applications and grant access to hardware. And having a hole in that part of

Dec 1, 2014
Crete Carrier and Shaffer Trucking Lead the Industry with Driver Pay Increase

LINCOLN, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crete Carrier and Shaffer Trucking have announced a pay increase for their company national over the road (OTR) drivers. Effective Jan. 1, 2015, Crete national OTR drivers will receive a $.02 per practical mile increase, resulting in an 11 percent increase in the overall pay package. When combined with an over 2 percent increase in miles, drivers will be earning more than 1

Nov 29, 2014
Why so many farmers miss the Wheat Board

Henry Kuhl could see the hovering helicopter and police lights as he drove his truck toward Canada Customs. It was a sunny day in spring, 1996, and he and 40 other Manitoba farmers had crossed into North Dakota to sell their grain. It was a symbolic protest against the Canadian Wheat Board, the federal marketing agency that monopolized the grain trade and forbade farmers from disposing of their own wheat. We were sick and tired of being pushed around by the Wheat Board, says Kuh

Nov 28, 2014
NITL to shippers: ‘Be prepared’

William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor Shippers at the National Industrial Transportation Leagues annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week were lucky to get there. An early blast of winter disrupted air travel as the conference began, dumping seven feet of snow on Buffalo, New York. The storm was an unwelcome reminder of last winters polar vortex and a portent of supply

Nov 28, 2014
Should insurance requirements go up? FMCSA asks the questions

By Jami Jones, Land Line managing editor To raise the insurance requirement or not to raise it, that is the question, or at least the gist of the 26 questions the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is posing in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to publish in the Federal Register on Friday, Nov. 28. FMCSA is considering a rulemaking that would increase the insuran

Nov 28, 2014
Railroads Face Government Scrutiny Over Mergers, Service And Competition

Summary Here is my exclusive interview with a member of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. Read Deb Miller's views on railroad mergers, congestion, hiring and training, and the economy. Any merger proposal would have to include ways to mitigate service problems on the rail network. America needs a freight policy to address the lack of rail infrastructure. Choke points are creating lags in the

Nov 27, 2014
Bear with me as I drone on

by Paul Menig CEO, Tech-I-M LLC This week was spent talking with the ATAs Technology and Maintenance Council about Future Freight Transportation and, for the 21st Century Truck Partnership, reviewing presentations on what technologies can be used to further improve greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fuel consumption. We looked a

Nov 27, 2014
Salt prices nearly double; Could road conditions be worse than last year?

PITTSBURGH As road crews prepare for a Winter Weather Advisory, Target 11 has learned that some communities are also trying to figure out how they will pay to keep the roads safe. I was shocked, West Mifflin Borough Manager Brian Kamauf said. He couldnt believe his eyes when he got the bill for road salt. We've seen a huge increase in salt prices this ye

Nov 27, 2014
September freight totals $102.2B; trucks contribute the most

The Trucker News Services 11/25/2014 U.S.-NAFTA freight totaled $102.2 billion in September 2014 as all five major transportation modes air, vessel, pipeline, rail, and trucks carried more U.S.-NAFTA freight than in September 2013, according to the TransBorder Freight Data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). September was the seventh consecutive m

Nov 26, 2014
The Dissolving Silos – The Convergence of 3PLs, Brokers, Carriers

by Mitch Weseley The logistics service provider (LSP) market landscape is undergoing a titanic shift. The traditional boundaries between brokers, carriers and 3PLs are blurring, particularly in the small- to mid-sized LSP market. Many of these companies are experiencing a blending of the time-honored functions that once separated the

Nov 25, 2014
Issues: Coping with truckers along the interstate

http://www.desertsun.com/staff/22417/james-folmer Traffic continues to be a hot topic with our Youve Got Issues Facebook group. Ellen Karsten of Bermuda Dunes put up two posts concerned about trucks constantly roaring along Interstate 10. Average speed limit 85! she writes. Arizona drivers zooming by, large interstate trucks doing 70! Scary. Wheres the Highway Patrol?&r

Nov 25, 2014
Tight truck capacity putting pressure on shippers: FTR

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Shippers continue to feel the effect of tight trucking capacity, according to the latest Shippers Conditions Index compiled by FTR. The reading of -6.6 in September was basically unchanged from the previous month and reflects sustained capacity tightness and rate increases for fleets. The cost to ship goods is expected to remain elevated, FTR indicated. It says the typical slowdown in freight tonnage expected during the winter months will this year prov

Nov 24, 2014
New York broker for car haulers faces federal charges of wire, mail fraud

By Greg Grisolano, Land Line staff writer A New York auto freight broker is facing charges of mail and wire fraud in connection with a scheme federal investigators say bilked customers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Gregory Sclafani, 62, of Southampton, N.Y., was arrested Nov. 13 without incident, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Transportation &ndas

Nov 24, 2014
Winter truck load increases begin Monday for north, north central frost zones

By Brainerd Dispatch Winter truck load increases will begin Monday on unrestricted highways in the north and north central frost zones

Nov 24, 2014
Possible natural gas explosion at trucking facility

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) Firefighters are investigating an explosion at a trucking business in Grand Rapids. The explosion blew out windows and knocked the back wall off of its foundation at an office building inside Masselink Brothers Trucking, located at 901 Freeman Avenue SW near Market, around 4:20 a.m. Monday. The explosion also caused a flash fire that firefighters were able to put out quickly. The preliminary investigation indicates it was a natural gas e

Nov 22, 2014
Chameleon Carrier Owner Continues Operating From Prison

Not everyone is cut out to be a Chameleon Carrier owner. You need a particular brand of stupidity to be shut down, reopen your company under a different name, and continue operating under the same unsafe conditions that got you put out of service in the first place. But it takes a truly idiotic mind to get shut down, reopen, get shut down again and sentenced to jail time, and then reopen againwhile serving your prison sentence. Meet Devasko Lewis,

Nov 22, 2014
Buffalo snow-pocalypse: Stuck in a truck

TORONTO, Ont. Earlier this week Brian Foster, a professional driver for Ontario-based J.G. Drapeau Transport, made a delivery hell never forget. On Tuesday, the snowfall in Buffalo, N.Y. shocked residents when an incredible seven feet of white fluffy stuff covered their roads, yards, and cars. Buffalo and surrounding area were (and still are) in a snow-pocalypse as it has been dubbed on social media, because of the lake-effect, a weather phenomenon that hap

Nov 21, 2014
Freight Crisis 2015

By Dawn Strobel+ Updated: November 19, 2014

Nov 21, 2014
Behind the Scenes: The Surprising Shipping Costs We All Pay For

By Dawn Strobel+ Updated: November 19, 2014

Nov 21, 2014
Are You Tired of Waiting to get Paid for your Loads?

Freight factoring company, Smart Freight Funding, helps trucking companies of all sizes keep their trucks moving by getting paid quicker. Smart Freight Funding works with single truck operations, individual owner-operator, and larger companies managing several trucks and drivers. We offer competitive low rates, quick pay, and superb customer service. The team behind Smart Freight Funding has more than 50 years combined driving, dispatching, contracting and accounting experience in t

Nov 21, 2014
The next big wave: how video and data will transform trucking

By Aaron Huff Four large rooms full of cubicles join at the center of SmartDrives 25,000 sq.-foot office in San Diegos Sorrento Valley neighborhood like the wings of a butterfly. Employees call this central area the truckstop.

Nov 20, 2014
Trucking research group, DOT team to study truck ‘platooning’

William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor Technology that could eventually link trucks in virtual road trains will be studied by the American Transportation Research Institute and two Department of Transportation research teams, the research arm of the American Trucking Associations announced this week. ATRI and the DOT researchers will study the costs and benefits of Driver Assi

Nov 20, 2014
Truck vs. Rail

Trucking is never off the radar screen of the railroads. Even with the Assn. of American Railroads (AAR) pointing out that The domestic share of intermodal traffic has been rising in recent years and that total U.S. truck-rail intermodal volume in 2013 set a record of 12.8-million containers and trailers, outside the hallowed intermodal zone of cooperation, the decades-long war between railroa

Nov 20, 2014
Thick roads, please: Dakota aims to extend vital trucking network

From his farm in southeast Dakota County, Brian Molitor has little trouble getting his grain north. He can hop on a couple of state highways built to withstand the weight he is carrying. But a trip west to Burnsville or Savage forces him to go well out of his way and pay more for fuel. Its just real hard to get to the western suburbs, Molitor said. Dakota County commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to designate an additional 42 miles of

Nov 20, 2014
Large Crops Not Translating To Large Bankrolls For Farmers

By BARBARA HARRINGTON

Nov 19, 2014
Trucking companies claim Pilot Flying J CEO knew of alleged rebate scam

By SAMANTHA MANNING 6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Two trucking companies claim Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy Haslam was aware of a scheme to defraud clients. Friday was the deadline for trucking companies that opted out of the class action settlement to file amendments with their complaints. In the bill of particulars, National Retail Transportation Inc. and Keystone Freight Corp. claim Pi

Nov 19, 2014
High cost of diesel fuel affects trucking and farming industries

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - For some drivers filling up at the pump is actually not an unpleasant experience. With gas at $2.57 per gallon at most stations in Springfield, fueling up wont break the bank. Im very happy about it and I never thought [gas prices] would go this low again. I think its going to be a real blessing to a lot of people because it gives them more disposable

Nov 18, 2014
Class I report card confirms ag shippers' frustration

Class I report card confirms ag shippers' frustration with rail service, soy coalition says Union Pacific Railroad reclaimed the top spot in the Soy Transportation Coalition's (STC) fifth annual Railroad Report Card. The top ranked railroad in 2011 and 2012, UP was second last year behind CSX Transportation. Norfolk Southern Railway assumed second place in this year's rankings after taking third last year. The rest of the 2014 customer satisfaction rankings show CSX in

Nov 18, 2014
Driver shortage will fuel rising rates

Bill McLoughlin Truck Stop: Driver shortage will fuel rising rates October 31, 2014 While recent

Nov 18, 2014
Rail congestion sends more grain to market on river barges

Railroad bottlenecks, congestion and high freight prices have frustrated Minnesota farmers this year as they try to sell their corn and soybeans. Now some are turning to an alternative: barges instead of railcars. They are bypassing rail terminals and driving to river ports, giving the barge industry a modest but significant bump in business. As of Nov. 1, year-to-date grain barge tonnages were 13 percent higher than the five-year average and

Nov 17, 2014
Shippers say truck shortage worse

Idaho potato shippers say a tight supply of trucks for moving spuds is making it challenging for them to keep up with holiday demand. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho Finding enough trucks to keep up with fresh potato and onion shipments during the holiday rush seems to get tougher each year for officials with Pot

Nov 16, 2014
Truckers Getting Scammed

Todd Oxner Truckers who are injured in trucking accidents are more often lately victims of insurance scams perpetrated by disreputable employers. The more serious the injury, the more likely the trucker will be scammed. This is how it works: an out of work driver hears about a job and fills out an application with a national trucking company. He then gets a call saying he has been accepted as a driver, contingent on a physi

Nov 15, 2014
Publicly owned trucking companies gain traction as U.S. economy improves

The largest U.S. trucking companies got bigger and more profitable and handled more freight in the third quarter, as a faster-growing economy put more freight on the highways. The growth of these carriers in the quarter was limited only by difficulty putting drivers into trucks. As industrial output and containerized imports increased, the freight economy gained muscle. Industrial production dropped in August but turned upward in September, as manufacturing activity

Nov 15, 2014
Are Farmers Controlling Grain Prices?

Looking back over the 30 plus years of my career as a broker and analyst, I don't have any idea how many reports I have written, Normally, I don't have any problem besides a little writers block on what to report, or how to put into words what I believe markets will do. Basically, I am a fundamentalist because I have seen that supply and demand will in the longer term outlook be the factors that move markets. I also know on any given day, or in the short term, several methods of trading and a

Nov 14, 2014
Rising freight rates harm US competitiveness

Rosalyn Wilson, author of the Annual State of Logistics Report was reported by the Journal of Commerce as saying that growing freight rates are driven mainly by a reduction in truck capacity. As a result, this could increase the amount the logistics and transportation industry contributes to GDP over the next several years.

Nov 14, 2014
Innovative Optimization platforms for grain markets now available from GeoGrain.com

Transportation challenges, bumper crops and potential storage shortages will continue to effect grain prices moving through harvest. Grain markets have seen dramatic swings in 2014 and GeoGrain.com now offers optimization platforms utilizing cash market data from over 4,200 locations, equating to approximately 48,000 bids daily and over 88 million historic records. Effectively marketing grain proves to continue to be one of modern grain farmings most challenging

Nov 14, 2014
Grain truck overturns near Cortland; driver pulled from cab

Area emergency personnel spent 40 minutes freeing a Bartholomew County man from the cab after his semi overturned north of Cortland on Wednesday. Jerry Grinstead, 71, of Columbus, was alert and talking to emergency personnel when he was removed from the cab and placed in a Jackson County Emergency Medical Services ambulance to be taken to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour. His wife came to the scene and went with him to the hospital. Officer Rob Henley with the Jackson County Sh

Nov 13, 2014
Large US truckload carriers add capacity, in small amounts, as business grows

Truckload carriers began to add incremental capacity to meet shipping demand in the third quarter, pushing up the JOC Truckload Capacity Index by 1 percentage point to 82.7. Carriers that were solidly overbooked with more available freight than tractor-trailers in the quarter appear to be in the early stages of adding capacity. But those additions will likely come only where and when carriers can get the best return on capital investment.

Nov 13, 2014
Trucker hits, kills, big black bear in southern Missouri

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Nov 13, 2014
A trucker challenges the Border Patrol, and his window is smashed

By American-Statesman Staff In certain circles, refusing to answer questions at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint is a point of pride. But, as this YouTube video shows, such refusal can have consequences. In this case, having window glass smashed and getting hauled bodily out of the vehicle. In posting the video, a truck driver who identifies himself as Thomas Sauer w

Nov 13, 2014
INTL FCStone Advises Gavilon, LLC in Asset Sale

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) today announced that the investment banking division of its wholly owned subsidiary INTL FCStone Securities, Inc., exclusively advised Gavilon, LLC, in its sale of select grain elevator assets located in Ohio to Interstate Commodities, Inc. Terms were not disclosed. About INTL FCStone Securities Inc. INTL FCSt

Nov 12, 2014
Rates across all modes going higher

Rates across all modes going higher as growing demand collides with taut supply Evidence mounts of capacity shortages, robust activity forcing up rates for some time to come. By DC Velocity Staff Freight rate increases have shown the whites of their eyes. A monthly index of freight activity released today by audit and payment firm Cass Infor

Nov 12, 2014
Trucking’s ‘prospect for profitability’ better than ever, economist says

There are substantial silver linings to the historically slow economic recovery, the driver shortage and even to strict trucking regulations and the high cost of equipment, an industry economist told fleet executives and suppliers at the CCJ Fall Symposium on Friday.

Nov 12, 2014
Scam targets trucking company

A Salina trucking company lost about $2,500 in a scam targeting companies that employ over-the-road drivers, a Salina Police Department spokesman said. Sgt. Jim Feldman said a man called Great Plains Trucking on Oct. 17, claiming to represent a road service in Georgia. The man said he was working on a Great Plains truck and needed a cash advance for parts. A total of $2,500 was sent in three separate electronic funds source checks, Feldman said. The checks were made out to the r

Nov 11, 2014
Bakken truckers often 'haul heavy'

WATFORD CITY, N.D. The dump truck rumbled over miles of unpaved roads in the hills just east of the Montana border, past the cattle and grain bins and haystacks, before arriving at the dirt pit. Bill Gore slid his truck onto the scale, inched up in line, and made a curving gesture to the man in the front-end loader. That was the signal to pile the dirt on high, and the loader did: Gores five-axle truck pul

Nov 10, 2014
Fired Truck Drivers Reinstated By Courts After Protesting Exploitation At Work

The invisible class of contract workers that keeps the American retail economy running smoothly have won a significant courtroom victory in their long-running campaign to end a systematic violation of their labor rights. Two short-haul truck drivers at the Port of Los Angeles who were fired earlier this year after protesting against wage theft and unfair treatment by their employer Green Fleet Systems

Nov 10, 2014
What can be done about Turner Grain?

The loss by Arkansas farmers of millions of dollars unpaid by Brinkley-based Turner Grain Merchandizing likely will result in state legislation next year. What that legislation will look like is a long way from final form. Dealers such as Turner Grain buy and resell grain from producers. Dozens of farmers say they have not been paid by that company and others owned by the same people, and the grain has not been located. Many are taking legal action to try to recover losses from a deale

Nov 8, 2014
Transplace Acquires Logistics Firm LMS

Logistics service provider Transplace Inc. said it has acquired Logistics Management Solutions, a non-asset-based logistics firm in St. Louis, with strong ties to the chemical and industrial manufacturing industry sectors. Terms were not disclosed. Transplace, based in Dallas, is owned by the investment firm Greenbriar Equity Group and generates annual gross revenue of $1.4 billion. LMS provides a variety of freight management services, including network design, carrier p

Nov 8, 2014
Transplace Acquires Logistics Firm LMS

Logistics service provider Transplace Inc. said it has acquired Logistics Management Solutions, a non-asset-based logistics firm in St. Louis, with strong ties to the chemical and industrial manufacturing industry sectors. Terms were not disclosed. Transplace, based in Dallas, is owned by the investment firm Greenbriar Equity Group and generates annual gross revenue of $1.4 billion. LMS provides a variety of freight management services, including network design, carrier p

Nov 8, 2014
Grain truck driver ticketed in train collision

Osage, IA

Nov 7, 2014
Attebury Grain, LLC. and its Affiliate, Rampa, Inc., announce grain shuttle project in Pampa

Attebury Grain, LLC and its affiliate, Rampa, Inc., today announced plans to upgrade its Eastern Texas Panhandle operation to accommodate shuttles and unit trains via the BNSF Railway. The project focuses on meeting producer and consumer needs by constructing additional storage capacity and sufficient rail capacity to load and unload 120 railcars in 10 hours; as well as equipment to load and unload 75 trucks per hour. Attebury and Rampa look forward to pro

Nov 7, 2014
Fire badly damages feed mill

PIERCETON, Ind. (AP) An overnight fire badly damaged a feed mill in northern Indiana, although firefighters were able to largely keep flames from reaching its grain bins. Officials say a police officer on patrol spotted smoke coming about 2 a.m. Thursday from the Egg Innovations Feed Mill in the Kosciusko (kahs-ee-AHS-koh) County town of Pierceton. Pierceton fire Capt. Nathan Rhoades tells WANE-TV that crews imm

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