Posts Tagged ‘long haul’

Second Windsor-Detroit Trucking Route Possible

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Professionals in the long haul business that are still hoping for a second Windsor-Detroit border crossing shouldn’t give up hope and might want to add their voice to the fight for this transport route, according to many transport professionals in the middle of the debate surrounding this affair. The Detroit River International Crossing project is still alive and a deal could still be reached that would allow this project to continue to completion in the days and months ahead in the century of the environment in the United States of America. Professionals in the middle of the debate surrounding the Detroit River International Crossing project indicate that lots of work needs to be done, but that support for a second crossing is still strong, and we could still see some movement on this idea by the end of 2010.

North American flatbed truck drivers that support the idea of a second Windsor-Detroit border crossing will be happy to hear that this idea is still alive. There are certainly elements in the transport administration of Michigan that appear to still support the building of the Detroit River International Crossing, but opposition can still be heard among the the voices. Last week, both houses of the Michigan legislature approved a Michigan Department of Transportation budget bill, which provides extended funding for more research and planning on this idea. Officials on the Canadian side of the border also appear to be committed to the building of the Detroit River International Crossing project and this will certainly be a major force in the desire to get this project built in the days and weeks ahead in the century of the environment. One thing is for sure, the volume of trucking services that will be traveling along the transport route this new crossing would service, are going to increase in the years ahead.

New Wheels for Heavy Equipment Transport

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

American shipping firms looking for a new tool to help them when trying to determine steel and aluminum wheel alternatives available on the market should check out Alcoa Wheels 2.0 version of CalcuLighter. Sources around the transport industry indicate that Alcoa Wheels CalcuLighter is an easy-to-use on-line tool designed to help transport professionals trying to decide on the type of wheels they want to use. This tool apparently generates instant financial information, calculating fuel, payload, scrap value and wheel maintenance information that can help transport professionals find the wheels they need. Sources report that CalcuLighter 2.0 compares the N.A.D.A. official Commercial Truck Guide trade-in value and carbon emission data to help transport professionals determine the best wheel to invest their money in.

CalcuLighter 2.0 allows users to input fleet profiles, including the number of tractors and trailers in the fleet, and select the wheel alternatives they think are best to take a look at. The results users obtain changes constantly as new information is entered and users can also print out the results they obtain and file them away for future use, when buying additional tires for your trucks conducting trucking services. The new version of CalcuLighter also includes interface enhancements, along with all the statistical data reflecting the recent changes in the transport industry and the purchase of wheels, due to CSA 2010.

Long haul professionals that want to check out CalcuLighter 2.0 should contact Alcoa Wheels directly, or take a look on Alcoa Wheels website, for more information on where to find CalcuLighter 2.0. This decision could be the move that saves you money on truck tires and a new tool to help you as you travel down the road in the United States of America in the century of the environment.

Freight Shipping Highway Angel Named

Friday, September 17th, 2010

American long haul professional are known for their kindness and desire to help out people they find need help on their journeys across North America. This desire to help was in full display on August 19, as another American transport professionals has been named the Truckload Carriers Association Highway Angel, after stopping to protect a young child from harm. Barry Eckert of Greenboro, North Carolina is the latest Truckload Carriers Association Highway Angel, after he stopped along Highway 24 in Beulaville, North Carolina, in response to another trucker flashing his lights at him. Apparently, a young child had slipped out of her guardians home, and walked half a mile down the highway, and was standing on the shoulder of the road.

Barry Eckert used his flatbed truck, along with another trucker, to block traffic from harming the young girl, while Barry phoned 911, and his fellow trucker chased after the little child. Once the police arrived, a passing pedestrian, who knew the child and her grandparents, told the police where the girl lived, and they took her home. Barry will receive a Highway Angel lapel pin he can wear proudly and display, for all to see for his efforts, along with a certificate to remember the occasion by, and a patch to give away or wear.

This news will likely fill the freight forwarders back in the office where Barry works full of pride, knowing they work with a professional that has been recognized for his humanity and kindness. Barry is likely back at work by now, just doing the job he normally does, but you can be sure he’ll always be watching for Americans along his route that need help.

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.

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.

Hybrid Heavy Haul Trucks on the Way

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Heavy haul professionals in the United States anticipating the arrival of a hybrid long haul freight shipping truck with the features and ability to allow Americas’ trucking firms to efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively shift to using hybrid transport trucks in their freight shipping duties probably only have a months or possibly years to wait. The present technology is evolving at a geometric rate according to some professionals and at the present rate of development it might be only a few years before we see hybrid transport trucks take over the job of moving freight on the transport roads of the United States of America in the century of the environment.

The growth of incentives provided to heavy-duty truck manufacturers designing a generation of hybrid trucks and trucking companies that want to make the shift to hybrid transport trucks has been increasing of late also and this is certainly going to provide the shift to hybrid long haul freight trucks with momentum in the short term. The growth in hybrid freight trucks on the transport roads of America is going to have to be fueled by the benefits that will be provided by the new technologies as well though and this is going to have to translate into lower maintenance and fuel costs and a reduced carbon wheel-print for the freight shipping industry of the United States of America as it travels further down the road into the century of the environment, if the shift is going to continue to gain momentum.

Hybrid transport trucks could in fact prove to have benefits that many in the trucking industry might not have focused in on yet, such as better cost stability during a time when fuel prices have been rather chaotic, increased investment by governments in new technologies and their implementation in the trucking industry, and other benefits associated with using hybrid transport trucks that can offer an attractive option for a trucking company in America.

Long Haul Professionals Protecting Animals

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Long haul professionals that need to conduct heavy haul freight trucking services along a 30-mile stretch of Highway 191 in the state of Utah that’s known to be on the migration route of wildlife in the area are taking part in an experiment designed to reduce the number of deer that are being struck by vehicles along this stretch of Highway 191 in Utah. The Utah Department of Transportation has started a pilot program along this stretch of transport road in Utah designed to test the usefulness of DeerDeter, a deer-vehicle collision prevention system designed by Jafa Technologies and Austrian-based IPTE.

Plans at this stage of the project included the deployment of 100 of these deer-vehicle collision prevention units along a 1.5-mile stretch of the route in question that according to sources has experienced a number of collisions between deers and vehicles in the past. These units are apparently activated by the approaching headlights of vehicles and set off sounds and a stroke light that according to the designers represents movements to deers nearby. Hopefully preventing the deer from continuing across the road as they stop by the side of the road to examine the sound and strobe light caused by the approaching vehicle. The designers indicate that because these units are only activated by an approaching vehicle, they shouldn’t stop deer from crossing the highway, when no vehicles are approaching, and these units can even be programmed with different sounds in case the deer become use to the sounds being used.

The first reports coming from the Utah Department of Transportation are pretty good, with no reported carcasses of deer found along the stretch of highway in question, since the units were first put in place in early May. The Utah Department of Transportation has been pretty quiet about this, other than providing the statistics collected, so far, and they appear to be playing it safe and haven’t at this time announced any conclusions based on the results of this experiment.