Tolls: Even More Expensive Than You Might Have Thought!

Tolls cost in more ways than you might think

It might be time to rethink raising tolls. Originally I was just worried that it would just raise the cost of goods and services...and it will. I never even took into account the impact it would have on off road businesses along the highway.

Well, according to The Trucker, tolls are going to have a huge 'toll' on roadside businesses. The I-95 tolls will charge truckers money just to exit the highway and even more money to get back on. On top of that, there is the cost of the toll to be on the road.

So now your $6 McLunch is going to run you something more like $10 or more. The tolls are there to raise revenue but tax revenue losses will increase because of all the businesses that will be starved of customers.

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Preparing for 2013

Weathering The Storm As A Truck driver, Tower, or Cottrell Owner

Many of the articles that get posted in this blog and others come from news sources all across the country. I pull articles from regional magazines, newspapers, blog feeds, etc.. I saw an article recently that featured a trucking business about 5 miles from our office here in Portsmouth.

The trucking business is Frank's truck stop up the street. This is a popular stop that has been around for over 70 years. Generations of truckers have come through this stop in and out of the port of Virginia. Many of the truckers, Cottrell owners, towers, and other transportation professionals that visit us, go here.

The article caught my eye, not just because they are local, but because it talks about what this business is going today to prepare for 2013. Post election, there are a lot of questions as to which way the economy is going to go. Is 2013 going to be a turbulent year economically, or are we leaving the worst part of the recession behind?

Why take a chance?

Franks truck stop has a possible solution. That solution is to reserve your cash and prepare for a rainy day. This, obviously, is not what the government or Frank's would like to do but this is what they have to do. Think about it. 

You have had five years of slowing economy activity and political gridlock There is no real plan on the books to solve things. There is no guarantee that gridlock wont be the status quo for the next two years. Having cash on hand may be the only insurance policy that a company has anymore...

 http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/11/12/businesses_stockpiling_cash_amid_cloudy_future.htm

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Finding Nuggets of Good Economic News In Transportation

Sometimes You Have To Search For The Silver Lining In Economic News...But you can find it

Finding good economic news has not alway been the easiest in the last four years. In fact, not just do you have to search for it, but you have to wade through a lot of ‘fluff’ articles about an improving economy that just don’t feel that credible. Don't get me wrong, I want to believe. I want every trucker, car hauler, tower, or Cottrell owner to believe them.

It is just the proof is not always there....

Thus, a story with sound numbers and logics about economic improvement stands out and I think I found one. According to Today’s Trucking, October showed the largest number of truck class 8 truck orders and class 5-7 truck orders since the beginning of the year. So here are the numbers.

• Over 23,000 class 8 trucks sold in October
• Over 18,000 class 5- 7 trucks sold in November

This seems to be a solid provable point. For those trucks a number of economic gears had to go in motion

• Customers had to have credit
• Banks had to loan the money
• A Cottrell transport had to haul the cars to the dealer
• and probably lots more...

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Of Note in Carhauling and Trucking

Gordon Trucking uses their trucks to advertise missing children. Incredible benefit to the community and to them. A win win all they. Now there is no way to put this on a carhauler trailer but your fleet might have vans, or tractor trailers that can.

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I doubt any Cottrell owner or Carhauler would argue that time is money but this is definitely an example of how much "time" is worth.

 

Save Time and Save Money

According to Truckinginfo.com Travel Centers of America, truckers or carhaulers can reserve spaces at their facilities.

 

The reasoning behind the new service is that time they are spending looking for a parking space is significant. Before I finished reading the article I pictured truckers looking for maybe 5 or 10 minutes for a spot. Did it really seem neccessary. All that changed with the next statistic.

 

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Cottrell Owner Beware: More Crooks Trying To Scam You

For the most part I do not hear of many Cottrell owners or car haulers falling prey to many of the scams that plague the general trucking sector.

Nevertheless I dont want to start hearing them so here is a warning for all Cottrell Owners, Carhaulers, Autohaulers, truckers, fleet managers etc.

A fake D.O.T. Letter is circulating asking for banking information. It is a counterfeit masterpiece, with official names, seals, and layout. But do not be fooled..it is a fraud.

Any request for personal information should be followed by a call to the agency to verify that you are not about to get ripped off.

Clever Trucking Procedures

There is an old biblical saying "the clever will be caught up in their own devices" I doubt this was meant to be applied to the issue of Mexican cross-border trucking but it kind of fits. According to Truckinginfo.com the National program to "open" our border to Mexican Trucking is stalling heavily. To go forward with the program the Department of Transportation must conduct over 4000 inspections. So far the number of inspections they have completed are:

89

So here is what is happening. A few years ago the Federal government thought allowing lower cost Mexican Trucking into the United States would be beneficial to a reeling economy by? well I dont really know why. Exporting American jobs in the middle of recession is a head scratcher but the program was approved BUT here is where it started to breakdown.

The Department of Transportation also thought it would be a great idea to begin levying over 5 billion dollars of regulations on the trucking industry during a recession to make us safer. And it did.

Now the much cheaper Mexican companies cannot meet the extensive safety and emissions regulations that would allow them to drive here.

So not just are we safer but our jobs are safer too. Very very clever.

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Truckinginfo.com brought to my attention a new site where truckers, and of course carhaulers, can submit their dream for a chance to win it. If your description is selected you win money towards your dream...sounds good to me

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Truckers, Carhaulers, and Cottrell's on the High Tech Highways.

I Think This Story Is A Glimpse Into Trucking and Carhauling's High Tech Future...

The article link is from a Washington State Online News Source is talking about the impact

of high tech driver measurement. The minute your Cottrell drives over one of the senses the

states sophisticated network instantly checks your Cottrell against:

• All your past records
• All your companies past records

And instantly notifies the station. Even if you are not doing anything wrong, your record can get you

flagged which does not seem all that legal though it has been effective. Personally this will probably lead to law suits since we STILL live in a country where you cannot start detaining people based on what they might do or what they have done if their obligations to society have been paid..

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Safe Driving is a two way street. Truckers and Carhaulers have to be careful, but so do the car drivers we share the road with. Apparently we are not alone with this opinion. According to Sanantonio.com aggressive driving will get you pulled over by the San Antonio, Texas police department. Since receiving funding from the FMCSA to prevent unsafe driving, the police force has issued:

1. Over 2,000 speeding violations, 
2. Over 500 citations for failure to signal
3. Over 467 tickets for motorists following a vehicle too closely

The article also cites that aggressive driving is more dangerous around trucks. So if someone in a small car speeds around you and you get cut off on the highway, they could be cited for 'aggressive' driving and ticketed.

I know this is only one small area but it is nice to see some fairness coming.  It is unreasonable to ask truckers to be responsible for what every car driver does. Both groups share the road and they both have a responsibility to be safe. It will be interesting to see if this program gets funded nationwide.

 

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Gattuso: Back off the truckers | savannahnow.com

 The risk of being under the thumb of  Big Brother is a real possibility if you are a trucker. The article link is an excellent example of how invasive the government has become in watching over everything you do and very little of what they have done has faced stiff opposition. I cringe at the idea that our carhauler owner operators will have to purchase EOBR ready Cottrell's when they visit a carhauler dealership. Yet, this is a real possibility...Every truck is subject to the billions of dollars of regulation costs that make owning a Cottrell even pricier due to government restrictions and mandates..

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Cottrell owners, like any carhauler or trucker knows that you have to take care of yourself on the road. With all the focus on Cottrell safety upgrades and fuel savings we can often overlook the simplest things. One of those things is skin cancer. 

I have read that UV rays coming through the side windows can, over time, cause skin cancer to drivers. According to Enhanced Online News, or EON.businesswire.com, the FMCSA allows truckers to add a window film to their window to prevent the cancer risk.

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Fueling Your Cottrell Could Get Expensive..

The Next Time You Fuel Up Your Cottrell, Think About This...

 "It costs as much for to fill your car in Tampa Bay as it does to make your mortgage payment"

I saw this on ABC Action News.com website and I can barely believe. Fuel panics are usually irrational short term FEAR of outrageous oil prices. This is huge. If this is what an American Family is facing what could be the fate of today's car hauler as they take their Cottrell down the road. I would say fuel, and finding fuel substitutes and solutions needs to be viewed as an economic emergency.

It cannot be a partisan issue with one political party touting the Keystone oil pipeline, and the other touting the potential of natural gas. Both parties need to pursue BOTH options with the fury we would pursue any national emergency....

  
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