Archive for the 'General News' Category
The state of Alabama has launched a new website for professional over the road truck drivers. The website located at www.trucking.alabama.gov was created to “…simplify commercial driver’s and related business interaction with Alabama state government.”
When visiting the site you will find information on permits and licensing, rules and regulations, federal info, roads and weather, tax [...]
The Kansas City Business Journal reports that area trucking companies are getting ready for more lean times during a freigh recession.
“Transportation giant YRC Worldwide Inc. will attempt to reduce costs in the coming year by $100 million, which Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said will include cutting an undetermined number of jobs. YRC employs about [...]
Con-Way Freight, the trucking industry’s leading LTL transportation company has received the 2007 President’s Trophy award for the Large Fleet category from the Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council of American Trucking Associations (ATA). The company was honored on September 21st in Pittsburgh, PA during the ATA’s Safety and Human Resources National Conference. Winners of [...]
Four states that Internstate 7o passes through are looking at the feasibility of Truck Only lanes that would run from the Ohio-West Virginia border to Kansas City, MO. A $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will pay for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri to study ways to reduce traffic congestion and improve freight [...]
Sterling, Va. - SkyBitz, the leading satellite-based asset tracking and information management service provider, has announced the addition of five customers that are deploying its tracking solutions. More than 440 fleets now rely on the cost-effective SkyBitz GLS technology to track in excess of 140,000 trailers.
“The SkyBitz tracking technology gives carriers and private fleets of [...]
