Earnings Watch: Better Profits for XPO, Forward Air, Echo Global Logistics
Most trucking companies so far this earnings reporting season are reporting big gains in profits in both the fourth quarter of last year as well as for all of 2017. This is due in large part to tax reform legislation, and numbers released Wednesday were no exception.
CVSA Director Talks ELDs, Enforcement, and the Future
In a wide ranging interview, CVSA executive director Collin Mooney spoke about the ELD Mandate, out of service violations and the future of commercial safety enforcement.
Carriers, minister meet on labor standards
DIEPPE, NB – The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, and several carriers have met with Patty Hajdu – Canada’s minister of employment, workforce development, and labor – to discuss plans for federal labor standard…
Overdrive accepting submissions for annual Trucker Talent Search singing contest
Back for a fifth year, Overdrive-Red Eye Radio’s Trucker Talent Search is looking for truckers who love to sing. Three finalists will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the Great American Trucking Show for a sing-off style competition to decide the c…
Detention costs $1 billion, increases crash risk: report
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Delays before loading and unloading activities cost U.S. drivers and carriers more than $1 billion a year – and increase crash risks in the process, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has found. Each&…
Report: Detention sucks over $1 billion from truckers’ wages annually, boosts crash risk
Drivers see an average annual pay loss of between $1,281 and $1,534, the report concludes, as well as potentially contributing to an extra 6,500 truck crashes each year. The DOT’s Office of Inspector General has called on FMCSA to bolster its data coll…
Pardon me, my accent is getting in the way again
Or: “The Curious Case of the Turd-Filled Hot Dog,” in which Wendy’s over-it-hillbilly accent betrays her late-night in the Speedway and hungry. “Sometimes, communication is hard.”
Embark’s Self-Driving Truck Goes L.A. to Florida in Latest Journey
Autonomous vehicle technology company Embark has completed a 2,400-mile, coast-to-coast journey in one of its self-driving trucks.
FMCSA clarifies how to submit crash preventability review requests for pilot program
For the crash preventability program, carriers need to select “Crash could not be prevented” in DataQs, ensure that the crash occurred after June 1, 2017, and select an eligible crash type. If a preventable crash ruling is changed to non-preventable, t…
Renewable Dairy Fuels Adding RNG Plant
Located in Fair Oaks, Ind., the dairy project will be Renewable Dairy Fuels second biogas facility producing renewable natural gas from dairy waste for transportation fuel.