Covid-19 Operations: Checker Flag Leasing
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GM Producing Critical Care Ventilators with Ventec Life Systems
General Motors and Ventec Life Systems are producing VOCSN critical care ventilators at the automaker’s Kokomo, Indiana manufacturing facility with FDA-cleared ventilators scheduled to ship as soon as next month.
Truckers ‘just lose’ when brokers don’t pay
Looking back at the first of a multi-part series exploring issues related to the financial security of freight brokers and how some shady operators exploit loopholes in current regulatory processes to cheat owner-operators, despite unenforced statutes …
FTR: COVID-19 Crisis to Take Toll on Trucking, Economy
The U.S. economy was rocked today by shocking numbers of 3.3 million people filing unemployment claims for the first time, but the worst is still to come for trucking.
Border bottlenecks freed up after EC intervenes
[caption caption="Lengthy traffic jams for trucks at internal European Union borders last week have eased with a more coordinated approach being taken to the processing of cargo by member states. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]The E…
News roundup, March 27: Truckers with critical supplies allowed to enter and deliver in NYC; from NY; J.B. Hunt drivers get coronavirus bonus
Arizona DOT crews will close a section of I-10 in Phoenix early Saturday morning through early Monday morning. Yokohama suspends tire production at Mississippi plant. J.B. Hunt is giving truckers and driver-support employees $500 bonuses for their work…
Though hoarding continues, a giving spirit bucks back
Though anecdotal reports of out-of-order drivers’ restrooms at some shippers and receivers have been more than a little disconcerting, a 13-year-old son of an owner-operator and an anonymous donor at a truck stop in Wisconsin, at least, have their supp…
Survey seeks insights from truckers, others on COVID-19
By ATRI and OOIDA
Covid-19 presents new challenges for car hauler
SASKATOON, Sask. — Trevor Yuise has been behind the wheel professionally for over 30 years, the last six of which have been as a car hauler for Jack Cooper Transport out of Saskatoon. But in the days of Covid-19, he is running into a unique probl…
Strick Elevator Allows 25% More Freight in a 28-Foot Pup Trailer
When a less-than-truckload client came to Strick Trailers with an idea to build a more efficient and productive pup trailer, Strick delved into the task and came up with the Elevator.