Carmakers operating in Egypt are continuing to assemble cars despite the ongoing political unrest in the country. While production had been temporarily suspended at some operations at 6th October City, south of Cairo, where most of country’s assembly plants are located, there are no reports of production supply problems and showrooms remain open.
Just as soon at it looked like diesel was starting to trend lower it has done an about-face.
BigRoad says that more than 70,000 drivers and 1,900 fleets in North America are using its smartphone-based app to electronically capture and comply with hours of service (HOS) regulations, manage their business and stay connected to friends and family.
Given their higher exposure, the largest carriers are from two to 30 times more likely on average than single-truck independents to have a score above an intervention threshold depending on the BASIC. But large carriers aren’t the only ones that find themselves in CSA’s crosshairs.
As always, CCJ in August recognizes the top 250 for-hire carriers operating in the United States, but there’s one important group you might overlook: Owner-operators. CCJ’s ranking methodology doesn’t distinguish between owned capacity and leased capacity, so you might not notice the importance of independent contractors and their trucks. But the significance of owner-operators is apparent when […]
CCJ Equipment Editor Jack Roberts, along with CCJ sister site Truck Parts & Service Online Editor Jason Cannon, hit the road this morning with Freightliner’s Team Run Smart in owner-operator Henry Albert’s Freightliner Cascadia Evolution. The crew left Tuscaloosa, Ala., …
The ports of Brunswick and Savannah, Georgia are the closest to the state capital, Atlanta, the New York City of the south, and are also ideally located to service the major metropolitan areas of Birmingham, Alabama, Charlotte, North Carolina and Tennessee’s Memphis and Nashville.
With the “new norm†cost of diesel at $4 per gallon, fleets should be looking at every possible opportunity to lower fuel consumption. Like no other time in the trucking industry, every drop counts. A tractor-trailer combo or driver able to improve fuel economy by a mile per gallon gained is huge in savings terms. […]
Following table discussions at the Automotive Logistics Russia conference held in Moscow in June this year, Renault Nissan, together with a number of OEMs and logistics providers, have revealed that they are planning to set up a new automotive logistics interest group for manufacturers and providers operating in the country.
