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Heavy Haul Loads Over 120,000 Pounds Prohibited

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Heavy haul professionals pulling loads over 120,000 pounds, such as military or farm machinery, are prohibited at present from traveling across the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge, which takes long haul loads over the Little Miami River, along Interstate 71 near Lebanon in Southwest Ohio, at present. The Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is still the tallest bridge in Ohio, but according to sources around the freight trucking industry is starting to show the deterioration of years and years of use, and is unsafe enough that there might be some freight shipping professionals that drive across the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge thinking that they need to replace this bridge. In fact, many professionals in the business of transporting roro and ltl freight have pointed out that the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is similar in age and construction design to the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis, killing 13 Americans and injuring 145 others. In addition, to the fact that the idea to replace the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge seemed to arrive at about the time of the Interstate 35W bridge, which has made a few think a bit.

The good news for any trucking company that needs to use the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is that they expect to start construction Monday on a $88 million project to replace the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge. The replacement of the bridge is apparently on the fast-track to construction, now that the structure has reached the end of its projected 50-year life span, according to sources at the Ohio Department of Transport. This is great news for the freight forwarder providing the customer with a great freight quote working for any trucking company that needs to use the planned replacement bridge to conduct freight shipping activities in the days ahead and welcome news for the freight trucking industry of Ohio and the United States of America.

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Domestic Freight Shipping of oil

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

America’s domestic freight carriers of bulk crude oil have to keep the oil moving to destination in the United States for the gears of industry, business and life to continue in America and the world. The crude oil must continue to flow in America for the present time, if we’re to keep the wheels of business greased, and eventually change over to alternate forms of renewable energy, but the change-over is going to have to be gradual for it to be feasible.

ExxonMobil is one dometic freight shipping firm of crude oil operating on the waters of this great nation that has been busy keeping the oil flowing in America. ExxonMobil has been busy working on new ways to increase production from its existing wells, of late, rather than concentrating on finding new sources of oil, which still have to be developed.

ExxonMobil appears to be having some success in increasing production from its existing wells, which considering the number of wells in production in the United States, could represent a significant volume of crude oil, if their new ideas work to increase production in America’s existing wells.

ExxonMobil announced the other day that it has completed the world’s longest extend-reach oil well from an existing fixed platform, which according to ExxonMobil will increase their ability to produce barrels of oil from the company’s Santa Ynez facility off of Southern California. Sources indicate the well platform in question to be the Heritage platform, which now extends more than 9.65 kilometres (six miles) horizonally and more than 7,000 feet below sea level, using ExxonMobil’s Fast Drill technology. ExxonMobil claims that its Fast Drill technology improves drilling rates by up to 80 percent and decreases the cost of drilling.

Reports around the freight shipping industry of the United States indicate that ExxonMobil might be able to produce an additional 5.8 million barrels of oil using this new extended reach well. This is equal to the yearly energy consumption of about 144,000 Californians, from a well that has already produced more than 450 million barrels of domestic oil for America.

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Heavy Haul Services in Florida up to 88,000 pounds

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Heavy haul services on the roads of Florida could soon be carrying as much as 88,000 pounds as they travels down the roads of America’s sunny state. The bill that would make this law went into effect on July 1 and was recently signed by Florida Governor Charlie Crist on July 4. Advocates and critics of this idea were very quick to respond to the news, when it was announced, and have since each had their say. Long haul professionals of the Florida Trucking Association and the American Trucking Associations have decided this is a good idea that has definite benefits for the business of freight shipping on the roads of the United States. Groups like the Florida Coalition for Safe Highways and the Florida Association of Professional EMTs and Paramedics are against the idea. Apparently, the EMT group thinks that the bridges of Florida are already in bad enough condition and that heavier freight trucks is just going to make the bridges even more unsafe and could even make it difficult for medical services to access areas of Florida. The Florida Coalition on the other hand thinks that this idea could make it more difficult for commercial transports to get moving and stop when operating on the roads and that this could actually contribute to the volume of accidents on the roads of America involving heavy haul freight shipping services.

The President and CEO of the American Trucking Association is so serious about this idea that they have sent a letter to Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist, asking him to sign the bill. The increase of allowable truck weights from 80,000 to 88,000 pounds is expected to increase productivity of trucking services, possibly decrease the level of traffic congestion on the roads of the United States, reduce the volume of fuel being consumed and the total volume of carbon emissions being released into the air due to the transport of roro and ltl freight, according to sources in the freight trucking industry of America.

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Reduce the Carbon Wheel-Print of Freight Trucking

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Long haul professionals, including the freight forwarder and the agent providing customers with a great freight quote, will be glad to hear that another page was turned in the freight trucking industries journey down the road to reducing the carbon wheel-print of the roro and ltl freight trucking industry in the century of the environment. The latest page deals with Detroit Diesel’s Engine Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan, which has been recently recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the first manufacturing facilities in American to meet the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry.

In fact, Detroit Diesel’s Engine Manufacturing Center was able to go beyond the expectations of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 10 percent reduction within five years or less, by decreasing the center’s energy use by 17 percent in one calendar year. At the same time, Detroit Diesel was being recognized for Outstanding Achievement during the DTE Energy and the Engineering Society of Detroit’s Energy Conference and Exhibit, for the Industrial Sustainability Energy Program of the Year award, which recognizes the Michigan-based industrial firm that has made the most contributions in the area of energy conservation.

This is great news for the freight shipping heavy haul industry of the United States and is definitely a road marker on the highway before the trucking industry that indicates the battle to reduce the carbon wheel-print of thefreight trucking industry is building momentum. All sectors of the freight transport industry of the United States and the world are beginning to weigh-in on the battle and things are really starting to get rolling in the carbon emissions reduction arena.

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Freight Load of Pharmaceuticals Recovered

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Heavy haul professionals will be glad to hear that a full truckload of pharmaceutical products stolen from a truck stop along the I-81 at 9 p.m. in Glade Springs, Virginia were recovered by the security provider for the load FreightWatch International on the I-81 in Tennessee on June 25. Apparently, the truck and load was stolen while the two man team driving the long haul rig in question were having dinner in a restaurant close by, while the thieves were busy stealing their truck and its freight load of valuable pharmaceutical products. The drivers must have been surprised to find their freight shipping vehicle missing when they came back from dinner, but apparently they had little to worry about as the truck was apparently quickly recovered.

Sources indicate that the truckload of pharmaceuticals had a tracking device embedded in the load that allowed FreightWatch to track and pinpoint the location of the load and truck. All FreightWatch had to do was contact the local police, who found the truck and its load waiting at a truck stop along the I-81 in Tennessee. FreightWatch indicated that the company had helped recover tens of millions of dollars in stolen pharmaceutical freight over the past few years. That tracking devices like the one used in this instance were only part of their layered security solutions their customers implement in order to prevent theft of pharmaceutical freight and recover it once stolen.

This is great news for the drivers and trucking company they work for, but it’s particularly important for people that might unknowingly end up using these pharmaceuticals once stolen. Hopefully, the investigation leads to an arrest and they find the individuals responsible for the theft, before they strike again. The next time they might find the tracking device and remove it from the freight load or find away to shield it from detectors, which is always possible once they know the tracking devices are being used.

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Reduce Pollution of Long Haul Rail Services

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Long haul rail services in Southern California has been working with the California Air Resources Board on reducing the level of pollution released due to rail freight movements in California, for about a decade, according to sources. Residents of Southern California still concerned about the pollution being added to the air of the United States and California by freight shipping rail yards operating in this region of America want more stringent rules and regulations put in place in order to speed up the process. Recent public meetings held in Sacramento showed that people are generally opposed to the idea, according to many, and it might be that the cries of the people have finally been heard?

The latest reports around this affair indicate that state air regulators in California gave their approval for a set of voluntary pollution cuts to be made at the rail yards in Southern California deemed the dirtiest. This news wasn’t met with applause by residents, port officials, environmental groups and local air regulators who have called the idea weak and made sure their objections have been heard. The plan calls for heavy haul rail services at four rail yards to be reduced that could reduce 2005 emission levels by 85 percent by the time we reach 2020. The board members that voted for the plan admitted that the plan wasn’t percent in their comments, but that they needed to make sure they saw some progress in this area, now.

The residents of Southern California that have been asking for some action on this problem with air pollution from the rail industry continue to be unimpressed by the progress though and we can certainly expect that we haven’t heard the last of this affair. The state of California does deserve credit for trying to do something about the pollution problem associated with rail transport in America though and hopefully we’ll see more progress in this affair as we travel further into the century of the environment.

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Heavy Haul Job of Massive Proportions

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Plans of Exxon Mobil Corp. to transport massive pieces of freight starting this fall from the Port of Lewiston is being looked at suspiciously by American citizens concerned about a possible environmental disaster if one of the massive pieces of heavy haul freight should happen to end up in the Clearwater or Lochsa rivers. The Idaho Transportation Department has stated that it’s their job to issue permits for long haul loads of large size, such as the ones in question, as long as the loads in question can be transported without damaging roads or bridges along the proposed transport route. They want to have freight shipping services take the freight loads along US 12 through the Lochsa River canyon, over the Lolo Pass and then through northwestern Montana, before finally reaching the Kearl Oil Sands in northeastern Alberta.

This is a trip that would make any trucking company proud to complete as this job entails hauling 200 oversized loads of Korean-made freight along transport routes that travel across rough terrain in many areas, according to sources. Sources surrounding this affair also indicate that the largest load would weigh in the neighbourhood of about 580,000 pounds and be up to 210 feet in length, which is going to be a massive transport job for any firm. These shipments would in fact exceed legal weight limits for the Idaho stretch of the transport as a typical tractor-trailer is around 90 feet in length and weighs about 80,000 pounds. This fact is certainly one that’s going to catch the eye of observers looking on and this is certainly the case as a few concerned politicians have also been heard recently commenting on the proposed transport of these massive pieces of freight.

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