http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trucking/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:54:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413768/posts Arrow Trucking Company suspended operations yesterday, leaving hundreds of drivers across the country out of work three days before Christmas. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413768/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413667/posts Arrow Trucking news is not good for employees, as the Arrow Trucking Company is closing its doors. The Arrow Trucking Company is rumored to be bankrupt now, but it seems that Arrow Trucking really didn't care about their employees in the end. It is being reported that some Arrow Trucking employees didn't find out they were out of a job until their gas cards were rejected while they were on the job across the country. the examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413667/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395716/posts Filiberto Cervantes has already separated from his wife and kids, lost his car, moved into his truck and says he subsists largely on a diet of $1 cheese burritos. But Jan. 1 looms like a date with the grim reaper himself. ... Cervantes is among thousands of truckers servicing the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex who are facing a day of reckoning this New Year's. That's because Jan. 1 is the day new clean-air guidelines go into effect at the ports, banning all pre-1994 trucks -- as well as 1994-2003 rigs that have not been retrofitted with costly diesel particulate... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395716/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:55:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394342/posts A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers. Most trucks enrolled in the program pause at the border for just 20 seconds before entering the United States. And nine out of 10 of them do so without anyone looking at their cargo. The government keeps the list of participants secret, citing national security and trade secrets. More than half of all U.S. imports now come from companies in the program, called the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or... Wa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394342/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:43:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388728/posts Payroll employment among for-hire trucking companies in October dropped 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from September levels – slightly more than the decline the month before. Employment is down 9.3 percent from October 2008, according to preliminary figures released Friday, Nov. 6, by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. etrucker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388728/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383055/posts Payroll employment among for-hire trucking companies in October dropped 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from September levels – slightly more than the decline the month before. Employment is down 9.3 percent from October 2008, according to preliminary figures released Friday, Nov. 6, by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the estimated 7,500 jobs lost in October, the trucking industry has lost more than 91,000 jobs since the end of 2008 – a decline of 6.8 percent. Job cuts since July 2008 – just before the current decline – total 141,400. The BLS numbers reflect... eTrucker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383055/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374860/posts NEW YORK (AP) -- YRC Worldwide said Friday it lost money in the third quarter, but the financially fragile trucking company is still working with lenders to stay out of bankruptcy. Despite a weak economy and competitors nipping at its heels, YRC CEO Bill Zollars said in a conference call with analysts that he's confident the company will be able to rightsize itself next year. But he expects the economy to remain weak through the first half of 2010. "I don't think there's anything that would make us think we can't be back there at some point," Zollars said. "The... Yahoo Finance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374860/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:43:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364789/posts (As you read the article, remember it comes from the Dem mindset that GPS causes accidents, guns kill people, etc.) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state wants to crack down on truckers who rely on satellite devices to direct them onto faster but prohibited routes and end up crashing into overpasses that are too low for their rigs. Gov. David Paterson on Wednesday proposed penalties including jail time and confiscation of trucks to come down on drivers who use GPS — global positioning systems — to take more hazardous routes and end up striking bridges. In New York, a truckers'... FOXNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364789/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:28:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360686/posts ORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday. A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket. The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County. Reuters via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360686/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356178/posts A tractor-trailer loaded with canned beans was struck by a southbound Norfolk Southern freight train at the Coile Street railroad crossing off Snapps Ferry Road about 6:45 a.m. this morning. No injuries were reported as a result of the collision. GPD Officer Jeff Craft said at the scene this morning that Bobby Coffey, the driver of the Swift Transportation tractor-trailer, told police he had been attempting to enter the lot of the So-Pak-Co plant when he encountered a closed gate and came to a stop. The rear of the trailer was on the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks, police said. As... The Greeneville Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356178/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351024/posts <p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Peterbilt Corp. permanently closed its truck plant in Nashville.</p> Nashville Channel 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351024/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2349028/posts A German trucker suspected of driving under the influence of drugs crashed his vehicle near Borås in western Sweden on Tuesday. He subsequently admitted to masturbating at the time of the accident. The trucker, apparently unable to reach a satisfactory climax, then proceeded to continue to pleasure himself while in the midst of a police interrogation, according to the local Borås Tidning newspaper. "He was masturbating while the police interrogated him," police prosecutor Åsa Askenbäck told the newspaper. "He has admitted that he was not paying full attention at the time of the accident. He was playing with himself instead... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2349028/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308769/posts WASHINGTON -- U.S. business groups are growing increasingly frustrated with President Barack Obama's failure to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico they say has threatened thousands of American jobs. "We've got companies that are really concerned," said Frank Vargo, vice president for international economic affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. "Our calculation is that we've got 15,000 jobs at risk and the longer this goes on, the more likely it is that Mexican buyers are shifting suppliers," Vargo said. U.S. manufacturers hold out hope Obama's meeting early next week in Guadalajara with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308769/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:33:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2302631/posts A plan containing guidelines on getting Mexican trucks back on U.S. highways has gone through bureaucratic review, the first step toward ending Mexican tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. goods. Implementing the plan would quell growing dissent among U.S. businesses that are hurt by Mexico's tariffs and that continue to besiege Washington with claims that doing nothing will result in job losses. The tariffs were imposed as retaliation for legislation enacted in March that took Mexican trucks off American highways, despite the North American Free Trade Agreement's program to let them into the United States. The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2302631/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:55:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256970/posts Trucking Headlines U.S.-Mexico trucking plan may resumeBy Jill Dunn The United States may allow Mexican trucks to do business here as early as June, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reportedly said May 22. This spring, Congress ended the cross-border trucking program between the two countries. Mexico responded with 90 tariffs totaling $2.4 billion on U.S. products, casting a heavy burden on U.S. producers, LaHood said in a Bloomberg story. Candice Tolliver, the new communications director for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, did not immediately respond to questions. In recent weeks, the FMCSA began work with the U.S. Trade... e-trucker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256970/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 18:27:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238954/posts GENEVA (Reuters) – The prompt resolution of a 15-year old dispute over access to U.S. roads by Mexican trucks could be another casualty of the deadly swine flu outbreak, international trade experts said on Monday. Increased health checks to control the virus, which has killed 103 people in Mexico and infected at least 20 in the United States, could also slow the passage of goods across the busy but troubled U.S.-Mexico border, they said. The United States imported around $216 billion of goods from Mexico in 2008, making its southern neighbor its third-largest trading partner after Canada and China, according... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238954/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238080/posts BRANFORD — At 8 p.m. on a Wednesday night — or just about anytime — there are 75 giant, exhaust-belching monsters parked at the TravelCenters of America truck stop off Interstate 95’s Exit 56. Many have their engines running and truckers inside sleeping or watching TV; cooking or talking on unlimited cell phone plans; playing video games or working on laptops to set up the next load. The Branford TA has been in the news because of the murder of an itinerant moving industry laborer found dead in a moving truck on April 17. But beyond that, it is “the... New Haven Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238080/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:49:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230339/posts Sprinkled with truck talk but also politcal talk Click for live Streaming WBAP 820-AM | Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230339/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:40:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2228132/posts I stumbled on the political forum at the "Truck.net Roundtable Forum" and witnessed a lopsided representation of todays events and issues by a few liberals on the forum. To add a little balance, I created and had an account activated with the login id of "Ophir". I posted 3 or 4 articles that were critical of the present administration and was immediately banned from the forum. The administrator came up with ridiculous claims of "racism" and "using multiple logins". I have asked the admin to call me directly. No reply has come back. The forum can be found at http://roundtable.truck.net/viewforum.php?f=28... Truck.net roundtable http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2228132/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:32:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224429/posts <p>WOLF CREEK, Ore. (AP) - A truck driver blamed his breakfast burrito for a crash on Interstate 5 that scattered a load of building materials across all four lanes of the freeway near Wolf Creek in Southern Oregon.</p> KVAL TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224429/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:18:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223204/posts Washington, DC (AHN) - An FBI program that investigates unsolved killings along highways has linked long-haul truck drivers with hundreds of murders across the country, the Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend. The Highway Serial Killings Initiative (HSKI) has solved more than two dozen killings since it started five years ago, authorities said, according got the Times. At the center of HSKI's operation is a database holding information on more than 500 female murder victims, whose bodies were discarded at or near truck stops, motels and other places along well-traveled truck routes nationwide. The database also has information on... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223204/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223006/posts The FBI suspects that serial killers working as long-haul truckers are responsible for the slayings of hundreds of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists whose bodies have been dumped near highways over the last three decades. Federal authorities first made the connection about five years ago while helping police link a trucker to a string of unsolved killings along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma and several other states. After that, the FBI launched the Highway Serial Killings Initiative to track suspicious slayings and suspect truckers. A computer database maintained by the FBI has grown to include information on more than 500 female... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223006/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 01:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214941/posts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday sent a letter to the California congressional delegation urging it to restore the recently ended pilot program that allowed Mexican trucks to transport goods in the United States. "In this time of economic distress, when more than one in 10 Californians are out of work and the repercussions are felt throughout our great state, we must do all we can to boost trade with our international partners, not stifle it," Schwarzenegger wrote. "And yet I am afraid that the prohibition recently placed on Mexican truckers will do exactly that, with the result being markets functionally... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214941/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213813/posts U.S. President Barack Obama's administration hopes to assemble a proposal to resolve a trucking dispute with Mexico before he visits the country in mid-April, an official said on Tuesday. nm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213813/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:46:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211545/posts <p>A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider her refusal to block portions of a clean-truck program at the nation's busiest port complex.</p> <p>In an opinion that dismayed environmentalists and labor leaders, the three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco ruled that U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder should grant all or part of the American Trucking Assn.'s request for an injunction halting the implementation of new rules that apply to truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.</p> LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211545/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:43:19 GMT