Meet the farmer who started the statewide relief effort to wildfire ravaged states
But Friday morning, Schaller was joined by nine other truck drivers. Their trailers were loaded up with $30,000 worth of hay and other donations for their fellow farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma hit hard by the wildfires.
Pennsylvania Town Grapples With Influx of Truck Traffic
A 102-inch-wide tractor-trailer belongs in Alburtis, a hillside borough of 2,400 people, narrow streets and no traffic lights, about as much as a tricycle belongs on Interstate 78. Yet Sharon Trexler couldn’t get through a five-minute phone call in mid-March about the tiny burg’s big freight problem before another truck drove past Borough Hall. It’s an hourly occurrence, Trexler said, especially since warehouses opened for business at the new Liberty at Spring Creek complex just north of town.
Pennsylvania Town Grapples With Influx of Truck Traffic
A 102-inch-wide tractor-trailer belongs in Alburtis, a hillside borough of 2,400 people, narrow streets and no traffic lights, about as much as a tricycle belongs on Interstate 78. Yet Sharon Trexler couldn’t get through a five-minute phone call in mid-March about the tiny burg’s big freight problem before another truck drove past Borough Hall. It’s an hourly occurrence, Trexler said, especially since warehouses opened for business at the new Liberty at Spring Creek complex just north of town.
Pennsylvania Town Grapples With Influx of Truck Traffic
A 102-inch-wide tractor-trailer belongs in Alburtis, a hillside borough of 2,400 people, narrow streets and no traffic lights, about as much as a tricycle belongs on Interstate 78. Yet Sharon Trexler couldn’t get through a five-minute phone call in mid-March about the tiny burg’s big freight problem before another truck drove past Borough Hall. It’s an hourly occurrence, Trexler said, especially since warehouses opened for business at the new Liberty at Spring Creek complex just north of town.
Will truckers become like drone operators?
A truck driver with his CDL operates a truck retrofitted with Starsky Robotics radar, cameras, and other gadgets. Like a military drone operator or video gamer with a driving console, the driver sees everything a driver in the cab would see and operate…
Neil Gorsuch and the “Frozen Trucker”
I have tried to be balanced in reviewing Judge Neil Gorsuch’s record. In a post right after his nomination, I called his decision criticizing ” Chevron deference” brilliant , a thorough and deep defense of judges deciding “what the law is” rather than deferring to agency officials.
ATA wants feds to ser hair testing standards
ARLINGTON, Va. – American Trucking Associations (ATA) president and CEO Chris Spear wrote a letter to the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Tom Price this week calling for the federal government to quickly release guidelines and standards for the use…
Competitive compensation: 3 tips to get started
Everyone wants to be paid well and fairly. And trucking employers want to be competitive. This should be simple math, resulting in competitive compensation all around. In reality, it’s not that easy. In trucking, pay and benefits go well beyond…
Driverless Future?
In a direct repudiation of voters, the business lobby and state Republicans are trying to undermine minimum wage increases. Donald Trump’s unusual deal with Carrier Corp. to keep 800 jobs in the U.S. alarmed many economists, but it points to the need for a corporate norm that doesn’t tilt toward outsourcing.
NTEA Names New President
Adam Keane, executive vice-president of Allied Body Works Inc. , was installed as the 53rd president of NTEA The Association for the Work Truck Industry. He accepted this position from immediate past president Matt Wilson, chairman & CEO of Switch-N-Go, AmeriDeck & Bucks Divisions of Deist Industries Inc., at the President’s Breakfast & NTEA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with The Work Truck Show 2017 .