Kevin JonesBusinessATA boss blasts ‘anti-truck agitators’The attempt by railroads, unions and other “anti-truck” groups to distort the truth about the safety of bigger trucks won’t work because the facts will support more productive vehicles, the leader of the American Trucking Associations saysApril 21, 2014BusinessMonday Money: Trucking, economic indicators in 5 slidesTruckload linehaul rates spiked in March, with the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index showing a 6 percent year-over-year increase – the largest in 35 months – and setting a new high. Intermodal traffic also continued to rise and a Federal Reserve survey confirms transportation demand has strengthened. Industrial production likewise has increased.April 21, 2014BusinessHighway fund to go broke Aug. 31; senator calls for bipartisan actionThe U.S. Department of Transportation has updated the “ticker” that displays the balance in the Highway Trust Fund, and it now projects the account will run out of money Aug. 31.April 16, 2014BusinessMonday Money: 2014 capacity, demand and pricing outlook in 6 slidesThe truck supply is running close to 100 percent utilization, and any combination of freight growth, productivity-draining regulations and bad weather makes for a capacity crisis, says economist Noël Perry. And guess what: The trucking industry is facing at least two of the three factors for the next couple of quarters.April 14, 2014BusinessKey senators promise long-term highway bill, current funding levelsSenate transportation leaders from both sides of the aisle stood together Thursday to announce they’ve reached an agreement “in principle” on a highway bill, though figuring out how to pay for their plan will be left to others.April 11, 2014BusinessCoalition takes opposition to truck weight increases to Capitol, questions DOT reviewWith Congress hard at work on the next surface transportation reauthorization, a coalition of public health and safety groups, truck drivers, law enforcement and families of truck crash victims took time from their Capitol Hill rounds Wednesday to oppose any increases to federal truck size and weight limits.April 9, 2014BusinessAdditional findings support opponents of truck weight increasesAlso Wednesday, however, findings were publicly released for the first time from another report, An Analysis of Truck Size and Weight Issues, Phase I – Safety, conducted in 2013 at Marshall University by the Multimodal Transportation and Infrastructure Consortium. The study was prepared for the Railway Supply Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based, trade association. The report shows […]April 9, 2014BusinessTrucking industry divided on weight increasesTrucking interests are divided over the issue. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has consistently opposed truck weight increases, arguing that, with limited resources, owner-ops and small trucking companies will be at a disadvantage in terms the ability to invest in new equipment and to pay higher costs for fuel, maintenance, insurance and permits. “We certainly agree […]April 9, 2014BusinessQ1 freight volume, spending finish strong; Q2 signals mixed, Cass report saysNorth American freight volume payment continued to climb in March, ending the first quarter of the year on a high note, according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report.April 9, 2014Business‘Value-added’ tolls: A better deal for trucking?Is there an Interstate tolling solution that the trucking industry might accept, or at least be willing to consider seriously? The Reason Foundation has outlined “a new way forward” in the debate, the free-market think tank contends. But a trucking-led anti-toll group argues the plan takes highway funding in the wrong direction.April 9, 2014Previous PagePage 15 of 29Next PageTop StoriesDriver coaching and scorecardingDrivers rank camera as top safety tech, as long as it faces outwardTruck drivers ranked a camera, depending on which way it faces, as having a good and bad influence on driver safety.Test DrivesQuick spin: Pete's electric Model 579Recruiting & retentionTrucking's youth movement lagging, but no retirement in sight for most driversTechnologyTransportation a top 10 target of cyberattackers, cases nearly triple last yearFeatured SponsorDownload the Heavy Duty Maintenance Checklist