High U.S. oil production, OPEC members playing chicken, dropping demand ... what does all that mean for crude oil prices?
Economist and financial analyst Gary Shilling set off a bit of a furor recently when he said the price of crude oil could go as low as $10 a barrel. Deborah Lockridge explores the likelihood of that in her All That's Trucking blog. READ MORE
Tags: Oil Prices
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:11 AM | » Comments(0)
California's latest round of emissions rules are designed to clean up the environment — but the expensive retrofit facing one truck owner is tough to swallow.
John Dutra is a one-man band, running his custom-upfit 1991 Isuzu FSR for construction work in the South Bay of San Francisco. Dutra couldn’t have known when he bought his truck so many years ago that today he’d be staring down a government mandate to (in all practicality) buy a cleaner truck. READ MORE
Tags: Emissions, CARB, Regulations, California, DPF, Private Fleets
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, February 23, 2015 9:34 AM | » Comments(0)
All That's Trucking: The latest blog post looks at how an old-fashioned country doctor is serving drivers at a Virginia truckstop. READ MORE
Tags: Driver Health, Truckstops
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:54 PM | » Comments(0)
This week, the price of crude oil dipped below $50 a barrel and gasoline prices averaged a little over $2 a gallon. It's the perfect time to do the common-sense thing and raise the federal fuel tax, says Deborah Lockridge in her "All That's Trucking" blog. READ MORE
Tags: Congress, Infrastructure, Highway Trust Fund
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, January 9, 2015 9:31 AM | » Comments(1)
Do you see the beauty of 6 a.m. at a truckstop? This Nashville photographer does, and captures it for the public to see. READ MORE
Tags: Nashville, In the Media, Truckstops
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, January 8, 2015 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Some state safety agencies, realizing the same old tired safety warnings just make drivers' eyes glaze over, have been turning to some more creative wording for their safety campaigns. Deborah Lockridge has more in her "On the Road" blog. READ MORE
Tags: Safety, Tennessee
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, January 5, 2015 10:57 AM | » Comments(3)
Last Thursday, more than 300 people celebrated the harvesting of the 2014 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree before it was loaded onto a tractor-trailer for a special tour on its way to Washington, D.C. Deborah Lockridge has more in her All That's Trucking blog. READ MORE
Tags: Kenworth, Eaton, PeopleNet, Image, Minnesota Trucking Association, Trucking Moves American Forward, ALK
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, November 3, 2014 12:10 PM | » Comments(0)
For patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a malady affecting many truck drivers, the standard treatment has long been the C-PAP device, a continuous positive airway pressure. But many find it cumbersome, and some companies market oral appliances to treat the condition. Will they meet new federal guidelines for treating apnea? READ MORE
Tags: Driver Health, Sleep Apnea, Regulations
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, October 13, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(4)
Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, wants to know why state governments don't worry about keeping or attracting trucking and logistics companies the way they would a high-tech company.
We're turning over "All That's Trucking" today to Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, who wants to know, why don't state governments worry about keeping or attracting trucking and logistics companies the way they would a high-tech company? READ MORE
Tags: Image, Colorado Motor Carriers Association
Author: Greg Fulton | Posted @ Monday, September 15, 2014 7:08 AM | » Comments(0)
What does a Mack Truck have to do with the Goodyear Blimp? Deborah Lockridge explores the topic in her "All That's Truckikng" blog. READ MORE
Tags: Goodyear, Vocational, Mack, Special Specs
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, September 8, 2014 9:00 AM | » Comments(0)
A dash-cam video that surfaced this week of a trucker's reaction after witnessing a fiery crash paints a portrait of truckers that's good for the industry. Deborah Lockridge explains in her All That's Trucking blog. READ MORE
Tags: Accidents, Image, I-10, Mississippi
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
An announcement about J.J. Keller's president riding along with women truckers prompts a blog post from Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge about the importance of connecting with truckers. READ MORE
Tags: J.J. Keller, Women in Trucking
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, August 15, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Here's a guest post from Senior Editor Tom Berg about an interesting character he met on a recent assignment.
Senior Editor Tom Berg guest-writes the All That's Trucking blog with a story of an interesting character he met recently while on assignment. READ MORE
Tags: Oshkosh, People, History
Author: Tom Berg, Senior Editor | Posted @ Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
As a former Girl Scout, a Girl Scout leader for the past three years, and a trucking editor for 24, Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge is thrilled to see continuing efforts to educate young people in both Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting about the trucking industry. READ MORE
Tags: Trucker Buddy, Image, Women in Trucking, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
A Chicago-area truck crash that killed four has led to local attention to federal hours-of-service rules, the mandatory electronic logs proposal, and federal efforts to address coercion of drivers to break the law. Deborah Lockridge has more in her On the Road blog. READ MORE
Tags: Accidents, Safety, Hours of Service, Illinois, In the Media
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(2)
Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge says her inbox delivered a sure sign that there's a capacity crunch -- advice to help shippers get "preferred" status at motor carriers. READ MORE
Tags: Transplace, Shippers
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Tuesday, President Obama took a quick trip across the Potomac to visit the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, a facility in McLean, Virginia, that focuses on highway technologies that help make driving safer and smarter. READ MORE
Tags: Infrastructure, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications, Highway Funding, Self-Driving Vehicles, President Obama
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
An article in DC Velocity says domestic intermodal "appears to have come of age." Deborah Lockridge looks at the issue in her "All That's Trucking" blog. READ MORE
Tags: Intermodal, Shippers
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Chinese truckers talk about how trucks have changed in their country over the past two decades during Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge's visit to a "truck park" near Shanghai. READ MORE
Tags: drivers, China, Truckstops, Global
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, July 7, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(1)
One fleet manager is reporting signs of an extreme driver shortage in his area.
One fleet manager says the driver shortage is even worse than is publicly being reported, with rates going through the roof on some lanes, because both fleets and shippers want to maintain a competitive advantage. READ MORE
Tags: drivers, Recruiting, Driver Shortage, Freight Rates
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(4)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says it's time to raise motor carrier insurance minimums. This week the House of Representatives said, not so fast. Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge looks at some of the pros and cons in her All That's Trucking Blog. READ MORE
Tags: FMCSA, Insurance, U.S. Congress
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, June 13, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(2)