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Showing posts with label carhauler. Show all posts

Truckers Can Officially Enjoy Coffee



It seems at times, everything is bad for you and life has turned into one big rulebook. Don’t do this, Don’t eat that, Exercise, Stop for inspection, and so on. Occasionally we cut a break. And that break is…Caffeine.

I am reading in Overdrive Magazine that a study in Australia shows a significant connection between caffeine and alertness. 

I am prepared to accept that. In fact the article uses important sounding words that make it sound so much more scientific than I ever dreamed. The article describes the miracle of caffeine with:

“caffeine is a ‘psycho stimulant’ that suppresses the innate  adenosine mediated drive to sleep.’”

That is a mouthful and maybe a really verbose way of saying coffee keeps you up or like my wife puts it ‘coffee keeps you moving.’ 

But who cares!

We officially can enjoy coffee. It is one of the few guilt free pleasures that is not linked to heart disease, hypertension, infection, psychosis, nightsweats, cotton mouth, allergic reaction,…etc. We now do not have to walk into the truck stop with that uncomfortable sense of knowing that some doctor said that coffee is bad for us. Even better we have official jargon to back up the right to drink coffee on the road. 

In fact it is something healthy. We are not guzzling coffee while hauling cars all night. We are operating our Cottrell’s with a legal ‘psycho stimulant.” (wow that sounds good). We are rolling down the highway with a health beverage that fights our innate nature to go into adenosine cerebral arrest which is a fancy phrase I just made up meaning your tired. I would imagine every trucker or carhauler understands the value of a caffeinated pyscho-stimulant on an extended roadtrip.

On a side note, the article also mentions that there is a condition where you are exhausted all the time. It has a fancy medical term too but I just call it being a parent.

So pull into that truck stop and find that coffee stand…It is now “official”... it might help you stay awake!

 http://www.overdriveonline.com/caffeine-use-reduces-crash-risk-for-truck-drivers-says-study/

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 *please note: this article is not a recommendation to drink coffee or consume caffeinated beverages of any kind or amount. This is a merely a humorous look at how feeling tired can potentially be mitigated by drinking coffee. Please observe the HOS rules and drink lots of water when you consume caffeine. This writer is not a doctor and is in no way giving any medical advice to anyone. In fact, consult with your physician before consuming coffee or caffeine products to make sure that is the proper remedy for any exhaustion or sleep problems involving adenosine or your bodies predisposition to got into a ‘adenosine mediated drive’ to feel tired or sleep. Be safe out there.
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Carhauler Benchmarks And Techniques

Excellent Use Of Articulating Decks By A Carhauler / Autohauler Professional

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Photo Courtesy Of David ZamZow Of Wisconsin

Handling vans or larger vehicles can often seem challenging when loading a carhauler or autohauler trailer. I saw this load by Dave Zamzow and was impressed with how he used the articulating decks to house the sprinter vans. By simply flattening out the carhauler decking he was able to secure the vans and load them comfortably on the trailer.









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Will Cross Border Trucking Impact Carhaulers and Autohaulers?


 The million dollar question for a lot of autotransport professionals or carhaulers is:

What effect will cross border trucking have on carhaulers and autohaulers?

#carhauler cross border trucking mexican truckingI do not know. I do know the government WILL NOT let this issue die even with less than marginal results for the past few years. They WILL NOT let the issue die with the recent multi ton seizure of marijuana on a truck, or the security risk it brings, or the risk to D.O.T. officers who by law have to go to Mexico to do half the inspections..armed (Good Luck with That)

If I were a trucker or #carhauler I would take note that some powerful interests want to flood our market with cheap, easily replaceable labor.


http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/story/2013/04/a-bigger-driver-pool-through-immigration-reform.aspx
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B.C....Before Carhaulers?

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Carhauler Autohauler Methods of the 70s
There are a lot of things which seemed like a good idea at the time. Even for carhaulers and autohaulers you would think the idea of loading that factory new car onto the large spacious trailer would be the way it has always been done. Not so. Below you see a world without carhaulers and autotransport

I can only imagine how bad this is for the car to be moved like that.





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Trucking May Be The Only Avenue Left..







I just read a story about how trucking is becoming one of the most popular fields to go into. As I scrolled down the page of the article, the comments from existing truckers said otherwise.

No problem. I respect everyone’s opinion and can see strong arguments for both sides. Trucking is difficult. The hours are long. Stories of mistreatment and abuse rampant. Many people drive recklessly around trucks. Your family life is strained by your time on the road. The industry is over regulated. Fuel prices are outrageous. The list goes on and on.

To be honest, the illusion that it is a desired field is probably not true. It is probably because the rest of the economy has become so marginal that people are becoming truckers.

Think about it. Millions of people cannot find any work. Hundreds of thousands of college graduates are working for little more than minimum wage because there are so few jobs for them. Other fields have seen their wages plummet.

Against that backdrop, with student loans due while you are living with your parents, trucking does not seem that bad. The modest wage increase is at least an increase. The companies themselves will at least make some effort to retain you since there are not as many people entering the field.

New truckers will probably come to the same conclusion in time that existing truckers have. In the meantime they will probably do it since it might be the only non-menial wage job that even exists

Time Will Tell....
http://www.overdriveonline.com/how-trucking-is-becoming-the-most-attractive-job-in-the-country/



The Dripping Faucet Of Trucking


I can still remember my Mom reminding me to make sure the dripping faucet in the bathroom is all the way off. That little drip over a month could add into the thousands over time. Without close observation, it is easy to neglect it. 

I mean what is one drop of water? 

Well for some reason I equate this to the trucking and transportation industry. One truck waiting for a delivery may not make a significant impact on wasted fuel and lost time. One additional regulation may not be that significant. One more toll increase might be lost in the sands of time. Multiply that by thousands of trucks over thousands of days and you come to some astounding numbers. Just for lost fuel and time in traffic alone, the public faces additional costs to the tune of:

$27 Billion

This is the number I read in Overdrive magazine that is wasted as we, and our trucks, are waiting in traffic. Shockingly, this number does not even mention the billions in regulatory cost that trucking has been saddled with. On top of that, you couple lost road time, lost fuel, and regulation with a driver shortage, and the $27 Billion number begins to approach triple digits.

Tolls, and inflation are additional costs that send the amount of increased costs into the stratosphere. You combine all these costs and it is a real possibility that road transportation could become prohibitively expensive for a lot of things. 


Drop coming out of a faucet coated with calciu...
It adds up really fast (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This statement probably seems ridiculous but costs of doing business in transportation keep piling up on truckers and fleet managers and the public is feeling these costs at the store since it ultimately impacts them. Pretty soon those drops of wasted water begin to overflow the sink.

A penny more here, a few cents more there do not seem that big a deal but it is being absorbed by the public on everything from fuel, to food and even to non essentials. The faucet is dripping over and over and no one is looking at how to shut it off. In the case of the public, I have a strong suspicion they do not even realize the connection between runaway trucking costs and their finances. So in turn it is not just road delays we have to worry about, but a system that is being pushed far beyond what it can bear financially.

Eventually, that faucet will have totaled enough to fleece the public out of HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in added costs of what they use in daily life.

A possible solution?

I have no fast solutions but I do have some ideas.

As an industry we need to direct a portion of our outreach and education to the general public and consumer groups focusing on

  •   The costs we are paying in terms of regulation, inflation, fuel,  tolls, congestion..etc
  •   How those costs are draining their pockets at the store

We need to encourage the public to contact their Congressman about slowing the pace of regulation, tolls, and fuel increases. Connecting fuel increase reduction with the unopened Keystone Pipeline might not be a bad issue to push as well.

Another direction would be to see how we can reduce road congestion by the smart management of traffic. With all the technology can’t we get more people off the roads by giving businesses incentives to start telecommuting programs? This may seem silly but it is clear that those cars on the road add up.

Why not offer incentives to come to work at different times of the day to reduce bottlenecks that occur when people come at one set time.

It will take a lot more than just a few ideas, but this is a start. I would love to hear your ideas…

-Michael Saks
  Editor of Haulin
  msaks@ectts.com


Overdrive article link
http://www.overdriveonline.com/traffic-costs-trucking-industry-27-billion-a-year-says-study/

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