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Dorsey Trailer chooses Meritor Tire Inflation System by PSI

From Truckinginfo.com

2012

Meritor and Pressure Systems International announced that Dorsey Trailer has chosen its tire inflation system as standard equipment on its trailers manufactured at its 80,000 sq. ft. facility in Elba, AL.

The Meritor Tire Inflation System (MTIS) by PSI automatically maintains proper tire inflation by providing constant air pressure when needed. It includes the TherrmAlert option which warns drivers of excessive wheel end heat to help avoid trailer fires or wheel end damage.

“Our choice of MTIS by PSI is pretty simple, it offers our customers quantifiable value which is important to us,” said Trey Gary, president of Dorsey Trailer. “Every trailer that we manufacture should meet or exceed customer expectations once they get it on the road and we know from experience that MTIS does not disappoint.”

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Commentary: This will eventually be mainstream. It is available for carhaulers and autohauler professionals
right now and will pay for itself in a relatively short time

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Plans for Southern California Truck-Only Freeway In the Works - Truckinginfo.com

Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)

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Plans for Southern California Truck-Only Freeway In the Works

A flood of freight predicted to clog freeways in Southern California has spurred regional transportation officials to plan a truck-only east-west freeway between two major interstates, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

The freeway, which is part of a 30-year regional transportation plan for the area, is intended to improve the movement of goods. Officials are considering the cargo highway between Interstate 710 in Commerce, Calif., and Interstate 15 in Ontario, Calif, adjacent to Highway 60.

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The specifics of the route aren't finalized, but there are tentative plans for a four-lane causeway.

According to the Press-Enterprise's article, "40% of the goods coming into the country arrive at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and that contributes mightily to the 13,000 trucks that on average cross from Los Angeles County into San Bernardino County along the 60 each day. The number of trucks is predicted to nearly double by 2035."

Between 25% and 40% of the trucks would be port-related, nearly 40% would serve local goods movement dependent industries, and the remainder would support domestic trade.

According to the Southern California Association of Governments, the truck freeway would relieve traffic on Highway 60 by as much as 85%.

There is also a heavy emphasis on the environment in the plan. In the future, the route could be strictly for zero-emission trucks that run on alternative fuels.

The freeway is estimated to cost more than $15 billion.

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Carhauler Service Special at the Port of Virginia

Maintaining a carhauler can be both expensive and time consuming. If you are in the Port of Virginia stop by and take advantage of this special

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Are more jobs going across the US Border?

From Fleet Owner

July 2011

ALERT: U.S., Mexico sign cross-border trucking program

The U.S. and Mexico formalized a cross-border trucking program that will end more than $2 billion of tariffs on exported U.S. goods and open up U.S. roadways to approved Mexican trucks.

According to the Dept. of Transportation, the agreement calls for Mexican trucks to comply with all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and they must utilize electronic monitoring systems to track hours-of-service compliance. DOT will also review driving records and require drug testing of all drivers, to be analyzed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services at approved U.S. labs.

Mexican drivers will also have to prove “their ability to understand the English language and U.S. traffic signs.”

U.S. carriers will receive reciprocal authority to operate in Mexico.
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Heavy Trucking and Social Media....

Opinion: Why Trucking Should Adopt Social Media

From Transport Topics

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Image via CrunchBaseBy Dick Hyatt
President
Decisiv Inc.

Social media are transforming the way America does business, and there’s no reason that shouldn’t include trucking. When it comes to traditional trucking products such as vehicles, systems and components, the development life cycle can be fairly long. The time span required from initial concept through design, research and development and testing before production can begin can be measured in years. Information-management technology, on the other hand, often has a much shorter development life.

What that means for those of us who supply the advanced technologies used to manage trucking companies today is that our objective has to be communicating more effectively with our customers and partners.
Traditionally, we have employed such practices as focus groups to accomplish this task, and while they yielded results, these groups were expensive, time-consuming and static.

Fixed in time, they simply could not address technology issues and customer and partner challenges in an effective and beneficial time frame.

But today, many trucking companies and industry suppliers of all types of technologies are successfully using social media communication channels such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to meet almost immediately the challenges and needs of customers and partners.

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Commercial trailer net orders post strong gains

May commercial trailer net orders were up 59 percent over the same month last year, continuing a healthy rebound from a very weak 2009, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT). Through May, year-to-date net orders for trailers are up 69 percent..to read more click here

Verizon, UPS Adding Alternative Fuel Vehicles

"Verizon Communications Inc. and UPS Inc. have both announced the addition of alternative-fuel vehicles to their fleets.Verizon said it is buying 576 Chevrolet Silverado hybrid pickup trucks, but released no details on where the trucks would be deployed, Bloomberg News reported...."

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Opinion: Driver Retention Is Not That Easy

From Transport Topics online story
by Joe White
CEO Cost down consulting

Article Summary

there are no quick fixes or magic formulas for successful driver retention

Key quote from article:

"The reality is this — an effective driver retention program is complex, structured and dynamic"

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Initial Jobless Claims Fall for Week

Article Summary (from Transport Topics Online)

Claims by jobless people went down 10,000
The statistics were compiled by the Labor Department

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Trucking jobs up in April

By Avery Vise

Trucking companies added 1,000 jobs in April, but payroll employment for the industry was 3,200 lower than what the government reported last month for March. Preliminary figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the for-hire trucking industry added 1,000 jobs in April over March, but the latest figures also revised downward the payroll employment numbers for February and March.The upshot is that the 600-job increase BLS reported for March last month became a 2,400-job loss. And that’s on top of a 1,200-job downward revision for February that’s also included in the figures BLS released today, May 7.Trucking employment in April was down 47,700, or 3.7 percent, from April 2009. Preliminary data show payroll employment of almost 1.227 million jobs – down 226,700, or 15.6 percent, from the trucking employment peak in January 2007. The BLS numbers reflect all payroll employment in for-hire trucking, but they don’t include trucking-related jobs in other industries, such as a truck driver for a private fleet. Within the broad category of transportation and warehousing, employment was down 20,000 due to a 21,000-job reduction in the courier and messenger industry.Nationwide, the economy gained 290,000 jobs in April, according to preliminary BLS numbers. A large portion of that increase resulted from the hiring of 66,000 temporary workers to conduct the Census

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