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., …
BMW AG’s rechargeable i8 sports car is entering a soon-to-be-crowded field of supercars with a hint of green. While they tap into Tesla Motors Inc.’s popularity, they’re all for different buyers.
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.
Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) manages and coordinates all the Toyota, Lexus and Scion finished vehicle movements into and from North America. Vehicles are imported from Japan through the west coast ports of Portland, Oregon and Benicia and Long Beach, California. On the east coast, Jacksonville, Florida and Newark, New Jersey are destination ports and Lazaro […]
Working with suppliers to encourage lean concepts is a pre-requisite for GM’s new purchasing head, Grace Lieblein, reports Sam Ogle.
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. […]
