Trains and Walmart Commercials – or Marketing Schemes

What is Walmart thinking? Sounds like a marketing scheme to me.
They (Walmart) are trying to join in on the “green movement” and sell some stuff doing it. Everybody knows or they should know that when a store rolls back prices or runs a sale the store usually has that item marked up to begin [...]

Heavier Weights for Same Money and Safety Concern

There are two bills that need to be discussed that are parts of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act.

One of the bills will allow the gross weight to be increased from “eighty thousand” pounds to “ninety seven thousand” pounds. Is this something that really needs to be discussed? The way the roads and bridges are [...]

FMCSA tells Arrow Trucking get trucks and trailers and loads secured

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued an emergency order to Arrow Trucking to make sure that all the trucks, and trailers, and the loads were secured.
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Two thumbs up for TA Truck Stop store 34 Nashville, Tennessee

Dec. 22nd 2009 as most of you already know Arrow Trucking based in Tulsa, Oklahoma abruptly closed its doors, but forgot to tell any of their drivers.

The drivers had to find out the hard way, by trying to purchase fuel and come to find out their fuel cards were shut off.
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Trip Planning – back to the basics

Thanks to Jami Jones (@shewhoknowstruk on Twitter), senior editor at Land Line Magazine, for bringing this topic up.
I’ll bet a lot of new drivers have never really heard of this before.

It really amazes me, or used to amaze me to hear other drivers ask on the CB radio, how to get somewhere.
I mean [...]

Whistleblower Exposes Excesses in $650 Billion Transportation Industry

Transportation insider Paul Todd has written a scathing new exposé fingering freight brokers and agents as villains of the U. S. economy because they cost each and every American consumer an additional $100 to $400 per month to pay for goods, products, and services needed for daily living. In Industry of Thieves, published by Rose [...]

Do you really want heavier Trucks?

I just wonder who went out and found those 1000 people and surveyed them? Because, they must have asked 1000 people who will benefit from getting their pockets lined a little more. They say, this will cut back on the trucks that are on the road. What they don’t tell you is, that the trucking [...]

NeoHydro Signs License Agreement for Green Interactive Hybrid System

CALGARY, Alberta, Jul 09, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-NeoHydro Technologies Corp. (OTCBB:NHYT), is pleased to announce the signing of a license agreement for the Green Interactive Hybrid System(TM). This unique patented system is proven to cause an engine to operate with more efficiency, less fuel consumption, and increased horsepower. Significantly, the system is also fully compliant [...]

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