A must read for any carhauler or trucker..

 

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.

http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/176872891.html#storyComments

 

 

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Any Cottrell Owner Knows...Time is Money



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.

 

Some drivers can spend as much as 150 minutes a day looking for parking spot which is almost a quarter of their allowable driving time. Who knew that finding a parking spot was this expensive?

 

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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.

http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=77974&news_category_id=3
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Safe Driving: Good News For Cottrell Drivers

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For All Cottrell Owners, this story is good news. No one understands the difficulty of moving an 80 ton fully loaded Cottrell trailer like a Cottrell Driver. People who cut you off or risk your safety and theirs is a factor...

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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.

 

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Drivers-urged-to-play-it-safe-around-trucks-3628948.php#ixzz1xh13wuYg

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