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Make sure your paperwork is in order

Monday, November 1st, 2010

There’s a lot of paperwork involved with being in the shipping container transport business, making sure all of your required paperwork and other things are in order is one of the most important tasks drivers and transport firms will be taking care of in the next few miles. One of the most essential parts of your paperwork in the next few miles is going to be making sure you obtain all of the documents on your employment history for transport drivers, both on and off your DAC Report. You also want to have the paperwork on your driving history, criminal record scan and now, your CSA PSP report. This is going to be essential in the next few miles, especially if you plan on applying at transport firms, and it’s certainly going to make touching base and finding the heavy equipment transport job you want easier during the miles ahead.

There’s also a new report out that freight shipping firms can reference called the “Pre-Employment Screening Report” (PSP) that you’ll want to take a look at, before you start looking for the job you want. The PSP report consists of records from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Motor Carrier Information System (MCMIS). In it firms will find the most recent five years of crash data and three years roadside inspection data of your transport career. Taking a look to make sure there aren’t any errors in the data on the PSP report could save you time and expense and you’ll certainly obtain a job faster if you correct any mistakes in this report. Transport firms you apply for could be using this report to determine if they want to employ you and mistakes in the data on this report could alter their opinion of your skills and professionalism.

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Trucking Services Transporting Heavier Loads

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Transport professionals freight forwarding customers goods to destination in a reliable, efficient and cost-effective manner will be interested in the news that the Truckload Carriers Association has revised its truck size and weight policy. The new policy of the Truckload Carriers Association is calling for 88,000-pound gross weight transport vehicles to conduct transport services on the highways and roads of the United States of America. Sources indicate that this proposal received the full support of the Truckload Carrier Association’s board on Saturday, which according to many sources will open the road in the future to heavier loads being carried on the freight shipping highways of America. Sources also indicate that in fact progress in this plan to allow heavier loads on the transport roads of the United States actually began last March at the group’s annual meeting.

This news is going to change the transport landscape for firms conducting heavy equipment transport in the United States. The ability to transport heavier loads is also going to save time, money and reduce traffic levels on many roads of the United States, according to many transport professionals. The American Trucking Association currently supports a weight limit of 97,000 pounds on six axles for transport vehicles in the United States of America. This is a little different than the proposal by the Truckload Carriers Association, who according to sources close to this affair are hoping to come to a compromise of some type with the American Trucking Association, somewhere down the road.

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Long Haul Services Transporting Wind Turbines

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

American freight forwarders have been taking care of the paperwork required for the transport of large and heavy wind turbines in the United States of America in the past few months. Wind turbines have been moving around America a lot more in recent times and at present about 10 percent of America’s energy needs are supplied by wind turbines transported along the roads and highways of the United States. These giant pieces of machinery require trucking services designed to do this particular job and if the energy agencies of the United States have their way, America’s transportation services will be transporting a lot more wind turbines in the months and years ahead in the century of the environment.

Transporting these huge wind turbines requires seven transport vehicles each to do the job of transporting to destination. According to the transport professionals taking these wind turbines to destination this is a specialty service that’s growing in popularity around the United States of America. One complete wind turbine contains three tower sections; a nacelle containing a turbine’s generator, gear box and electrical apparatus; and three huge blades that are probably a little different to load safely. All of this transporting of wind turbines in America has created a niche market for the transport of these huge and heavy pieces of equipment, according to many freight shipping professionals currently transporting these wind turbines to destination. A niche market that they think is gaining momentum and could in a few years time be a normal job for the transportation services of America.

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Trucking has a New Tool

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Companies in the freight shipping business have a new tool to them make sure customers’ cargo makes it to destination in a reliable, efficient and cost-effective manner in the second decade of the century of the environment. McLeod Software recently announced the release of LoadMaster LTL, a complete operations management solution for LTL trucking companies that takes this service beyond previous offerings of McLeod Software’s LoadMaster enterprise application, and into other service areas of the transportation industry of the United States of America. Sources indicate that McLeod Software recently acquired the assets of Enterprise Information Solutions Incorporated (ESI) and is at work integrating ESI’s application software product into the LoadMaster enterprise dispatch management system, which will allow heavy haul firms to support a truckload operations model, an LTL business model, or both operating models within the same framework.

McLeod Software has indicated they believe LoadMaster LTL is a very useful product for freight firms in under served segments of the transportation industry of the United States of America. They also believe LoadMaster LTL is going to have a long and profitable career helping transport firms make sure the goods are delivered on time and budget in the months and years ahead. It will be a little while before we know what the professionals using this new tool think about LoadMaster LTL, but if the previous history of this company and the products it creates for the transport industry are any indication, we can expect LoadMaster LTL to get the job done.

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Enjoy Shipping Container Transport Miles

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

American freight shipping professionals traveling down the roads and highways of the United States of America taking the cargo we all require to live to destination need to stay awake and mentally aware at all times. Listening to Sirius XM Radio’s new XM Snap!, a satellite radio for the transport vehicle that according to Sirius Radio is easy to install, set up and use, and can make your trips a little more enjoyable and might help keep you mentally aware of your environment and surroundings. Just plug the new XM Snap! into your vehicle’s cigarette lighter or power adapter socket, connect the antenna and you’re ready to listen to sweet sounds of the road using the radio included with your vehicle.

The XM Snap! comes with a fully adjustable stalk that allows you to place this unit in a convenient place in your freight transporting vehicle, the radio controls are easy to access and see, and the display included is a high-contrast unit for beautiful viewing, according to Sirius XM Radio. The simple controls included with the XM Snap! feature large arrow keys to help users navigate easier through the categories included, a rotary knob allows users to change channels with the flick of the wrist, and you can even call up your favorite channels quickly and easily by presetting keys with your favorite channels. Heavy haul professionals using Sirius XM Radio’s new SM Snap! also have the option of accessories like a magnetic mount antenna and they can tune into their favorite shows while out on the roads and highways of America, like the Road Dog Trucking channel, using the new XM Snap! by Sirius SM Radio.

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2 Million Safe Shipping Container Miles

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Two More truck shipping professionals were recently celebrated and congratulated for a long career of safe driving on the transport roads and highways of the United States of America in the century of the environment. The two most recent truckers honored for years of safe cargo transport on the roads of America are Virgin Shell of Columbia, S.C., and Dennis Howard of Goodwater, Ala. These two professionals were honored during a luncheon and presented with cash and gifts during the National Truck Drivers Appreciation Week, for over 2 million safe transport miles during their careers. This is a great accomplishment for any trucker and one that will certainly make these two truckers proud to say they’re in the trucking business, and the professionals that work with them proud to say they know these two truckers.

Virgil Shell and Dennis Howard are flatbed trucking professionals that think about transport safety first, according to these truckers, and they use daily alerts and reminders to always keep their minds on safety first, while out on the roads of America. The professionals that work with these two truckers indicate they’re normal hard working American truckers that exhibit discipline and patience on the job. These two truckers are definitely an example of how the transportation services industry in the United States thinks safety first, while still delivering the goods on time and budget. Just two American truckers with experience and skills they can pass onto younger truckers traveling down the roads of the United States of America.

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FMCSA Listens to Freight Professionals

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

American freight shipping professionals concerned about the United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s requirement that mandated EOBRs be able to operate in extreme temperatures can take a deep breath. The United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has heard your concerns and has decided to make a few technical changes to the new electronic onboard recorder rule. The USFMCSA apparently agrees with EOBR suppliers and the American Trucking Associations belief that the temperature range included with the new ruling is a little excessive. These groups believe current EOBR devices can withstand temperatures between -22 and 158 degrees Fahrenheit.

The United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is also making a few other tweaks to the electronic onboard recorder rule that will interest each American trucking company doing business in the United States of America. In the future, the FMCSA will no longer require EOBR devices to come with a specific type of USB connector or wireless connectivity. The FMCSA also stated that it would clarify its fault code requirements for EOBR reporting in the days ahead in the century of the environment in the United States.

The news that the USFMCSA is listening to the concerns of American professionals in the business of transporting goods to destination is definitely what the freight forwarder sitting in his office wanted to hear. Hopefully, this trend continues as we head down the road into the second decade of the century of the environment, and we are able to take care of all concerns the professionals have with the new electronic onboard recorder rule.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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