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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 9, 2011

What Keeps Maintenance Managers Up At Night?

When you get hundreds of fleet maintenance managers together on one location, you can bet they're going to start swapping stories about various equipment and maintenance issues they're having

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Trailer Talkby Tom BergFebruary 9, 2011

Ancra Load Decking System Adds Payload, Cuts Freight Damage, User Says

A second generation load decking system from Ancra International is adding 10 to 30 percent to payloads while reducing damage claims by as much as 50 percent for Con-way Freight, a carrier representative said

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 7, 2011

BMW's 'Clean Diesel' Ad Falls Short

Clean diesel featured during the Superbowl? Great, right? Not so great when it's BMW touting its clean diesel solution and implying that every other diesel vehicle on the road, including trucks, is belching thick black smoke

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Trailer Talkby Tom BergFebruary 6, 2011

'What Are Those Things?' Liquid Storage Tanks, That's What

Every so often I see one of these odd, squarish trailers being pulled down an interstate and wonder, "What are those things?" Last fall, while driving down U.S. 23 near Toledo, I spotted a pair parked in a lot and swung around to check 'em out

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Trailer Talkby Tom BergFebruary 6, 2011

There's a Website for Everything, Including Truck Spills

We've just heard of a website that displays incidents of freight spilled from tractor-trailers onto highways

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeFebruary 1, 2011

Got any Horror Stories About New Jersey's Snow and Ice Removal Law?

The New Jersey Motor Truck Association reports it has been fielding one horror story after another of the lengths to which some in law enforcement are enforcing the state's new snow and ice law, and is asking for further documentation to present to government officials

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On the Roadby Jim ParkJanuary 31, 2011

The 1,600-Mile Sandwich: an Ode to the Supply Chain

Consider for a moment the logistics of getting a packaged but fresh deli-sandwich from Eden Prairie, Minn, to a roadside gas bar in the middle of the Arizona desert that's not even on most maps. It's a logistics triumph

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeJanuary 27, 2011

Time to Submit Your Comments on HOS Proposal

I've heard a lot of talk about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new hours of service proposal. It's too complicated, it would harm productivity, it wouldn't improve safety, and so on. But have you told all that to the agency yet

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Trailer Talkby Tom BergJanuary 25, 2011

Did Jim Carrey Really Heap Praise on Titan Trailers? No, but Jim Carey Did

Last week we got a press release from Titan Trailers that described a customer's use of wood-chip transporters in the woods and roads of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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On the Roadby Jim ParkJanuary 12, 2011

Life in the Very Slow Lane

Hot on the heels of my most recent blog about the truck crash on the Pennsylvania rest area on-ramp, comes this tale of a fellow riding an electric wheelchair along the breakdown lane of I-95 in Connecticut

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeJanuary 12, 2011

How Will CSA Data Be Used?

Last month, the next stage of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new CSA 2010 enforcement program went live, making carrier safety information available to the public

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeJanuary 11, 2011

Tonic for a Winter Day

I spent all of yesterday in an uncomfortable chair in a hotel meeting room listening to 35 guys say pretty much the same thing in 35 different ways

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