Archive for September, 2010

The schoolchildren of American need you

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Heavy haul freight trucking professionals in the United States of America that would like to help educate schoolchildren and introduce educators to the trucking industry through the eyes of a professional long haul freight shipping trucker of America can do so through Trucker Buddy International. Trucker Buddy International is an independent, non-profit 501© (3) organization dedicated to helping educate and mentor supervised schoolchildren in grades 2-8 via a pen pal relationship with a professional roro and ltl freight truck driver.

Trucker drivers applying for the Trucker Buddy program are put through an extensive screening process and then are matched with a class and as directed by the teacher will share news about their travels around the United States of America with the children. In return, drivers will receive letters written by the students and pictures, which according to sources gives the kids an opportunity to enhance reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies and history skills and knowledge, while having fun, and there’s no cost to take part in the Trucker Buddy program as donations and sponsorships take care of all of the funding requirements for the program.

American long haul drivers that want to take part in the Trucker Buddy program should contact the truckerbuddy website for more information. This is a great program for American schoolchildren and a great way for the truckers of America to reach out to the people in the United States to build relationships with other Americans and help the children of America learn about the world around them at the same time. This could be your chance to pass on some of the knowledge you might not even realise you have to the schoolchildren of America and become a mentor and teacher to the children.

Trucking Industry Still Hiring

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The women and men of America were on hand in Fort Lauderdale on August 2 for a job fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in Danie Beach, Florida and to sign up to become a long haul freight trucking professional taking roro and ltl freight to destination on the transport streets and highways of the United States of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment. Sources indicate that heavy haul freight shipping companies in the United States are still hiring workers, with about 5,900 new trucking jobs being created in July, which includes all new employees working in a truck-related job in the trucking industry of the United States of America. Sources also indicate that Americans showed up for the job fair in numbers and quite a few American women and men will be becoming a freight trucking professional taking freight to destination in the days ahead.

The news that America trucking companies are still hiring new workers is great news that the freight industry in the United States will be happy to hear about and it certainly indicates that the volumes of freight that needs to be transported in America is holding strong and could be increasing in the last part of 2010. Hopefully the number of Americans becoming a freight transport professional in the days ahead continues to increase, which will be a sign that the business of transporting freight to destination in America is starting to gather momentum and could be breaking new records in the months ahead.

If you have been thinking about becoming a freight shipping professional of the United States? This could be your chance to look into the possbility in your region or in regions around the United States and you just might find that your dream has been there all the time, just waiting for you to make the first move. Check out job fairs in your region and stop by and talk to the professionals on hand and you could soon be taking freight to destination somewhere in the United States of America.

Help for the Smaller Trucking Company

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

American long haul freight trucking professionals conducting freight shipping services on the heavy haul transport roads of the United States of America that are part of TruckersB2B membership program will be glad to hear that Affiliated Computer Services has announced that its ACS TripPak products and services are now available to them through their TruckersB2B membership. TruckersB2B is a business-to-business membership program that provides its members, which are small and medium-size roro and ltl freight shipping companies in the United States of America, with the same kind of rebates and discounts on products and services as larger trucking firms doing business in the United States. A great idea that according to sources provides services that many small and medium-size trucking firms in the United States of America need to keep their trucks moving.

This is great news for the small or medium-size trucking company as ACS TripPak Express two-day service is apparently able to allow drivers to drop their trip documents in TripPak drop boxes around the continental United States and then the documents will according to sources be delivered to the trucking company within two days. Document managment is essential in the freight shipping business of small and medium-size trucking companies, now through their membership with TruckersB2B operators have access to a document delivery system that provides them with the services they need, like ACS TripPak Express, TripPak Overnight and more. Sources also indicate that using ACS TripPak products and services should also help small and medium-size trucking firms expedite their cash flow through their membership with TruckersB2B.

Heavier Long Haul Trucks in Maine & Vermont?

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

The current debate over the desire to allow heavier long haul freight shipping transport trucks on the roads of Maine and Vermont will be heading to the Senate as soon as the weekend according to sources around the freight trucking industry of the United States of America. The FY2010 Transportations Appropriations bill was according to sources approved in the House of Representatives Thursday and the next step is for the Senate to take a look at the bill and the provision that has been included that would launch a one-year pilot program to see what the results are of letting heavier heavy haul trucks on the transport roads and highways of Maine and Vermont.

There appears to be a lot of doubt in the minds of quite a few people at present whether the provision in question is going to survive the passage of the bill through the Senate according to many sources around the freight shipping industry of the United States of America. This is certainly going to make the freight shipping professionals in the United States that have been looking at this idea of allowing heavier transport trucks to operate on the transport roads of Maine and Vermont while thinking that this probably isn’t a good idea feel a lot better.

The current Vermont limit for truck weights is 80,000 pounds gross weight and heavy haul trucks carrying certain goods can even carry weights of up to 99,000 pounds at present. According to sources the Maine/Vermont provision included with the FY2010 Transportation Appropriations bill, Section 194, would allow 108,000 to 120,000-pound six-axle transport trucks to operate on interstate roads and bridges in Vermont and 100,000-pound six-axle transport trucks to operate on all Maine interstate highways.

Four All-Electric Freight Vehicles go to School

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The evolution of the freight shipping transport vehicles used to conduct freight trucking services in the United States of America turned another page today as the first four all-electric Smith Newton freight shipping transport trucks were delivered to the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District. This will make Lee’s Summit R-7 School District the first school district in the United States of America to implement a freight trucking fleet of all-electric delivery vehicles, according to sources close to this news bit, and the use of these all-electric delivery vehicles is expected to reduce the carbon wheel-print of the school districts transport activities and and hopefully save them some money as they travel down the road into the century of the environment in the years ahead.

This decision could have many benefits for Lee’s Summit R-7 School District as it travels down the road and we certainly want to applaud the school district for being the first to make this choice and having the vision to see the future. Hopefully this choice has even more benefits for the school district than are probably at present being estimated by many professionals in both the education field and transportation industry. If the benefits are as great as expected, we can certainly expect this decision to spur more school districts and other industries around the United States to start to look at how using all-electric delivery vehicles could benefit their business operations.

Long haul professionals conducting roro and ltl freight shipping duties on the roads of the United States of America watching the growth of all-electric delivery vehicles in the transport industry of America will certainly smile when they hear this news. This news means that the growth of all-electric vehicles in the heavy haul trucking industry of America is just down the road a little and we they can certainly expect to be driving a similar transport vehicle, somewhere down the road.

New Safety Tool for Long Haul Tanker Drivers

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The job of American long haul tanker truck drivers is a dangerous activity that requires skill, professionalism and focus on the job at hand at all times in order to make it to destination in a safe, efficient, reliable and cost-effective manner. Heavy haul professionals tasked with the dangerous job of freight shipping on the transport roads of the United States of America looking for a way to help reduce the chances of a rollover while freight trucking now have a new tool to help them provided by the National Tank Truck Carriers Association and the American Trucking Association.

Called the “Cargo Tank Driver Rollover Prevention Video” this new driver tool is designed to help drivers reduce the chances of a rollover while conducting freight shipping duties on the transport roads of America. According to sources rollovers are rare in the long haul trucking industry of the United States, but when they do happen the consequences are tremendous for all involved, and this driver tool hopes to reduce tanker transport safety and reduce the risk of rollovers on the transport highways of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment.

This new tool is just the latest move made by the National Tank Truck Carriers Association and the American Trucking Association, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation, to increase the level of safety for tanker transport drivers and the trucking industry of the United States of America as a whole. During the past three years this partnership has worked together to convene rollover prevention summits and to reach out to tanker drivers with information and other efforts to try to raise the awareness of safety in the tanker industry of America.