Is The Economy Inching Forward?

Year five of the recession and I hear good news but like many people I am wondering is it just fluff or is it a true step to a real recovery. In trucking, we see good indicators but the overall plight of the public is not improving. In fact, with so many news sources saying so many things, it is hard to really know how relevant the news is in our daily lives.

Likewise, I search for indicators that do show ACTUAL economic change, not just a spin on things that really are not. One indicator that is good news, is the housing report. According to an article in Transport Topics, US home sales are on the rise.

This being true that is a really good sign. Someone somewhere has to be buying a home to get the prices to rise. Even if this is an artificial jump, rising home prices might help people refinance or sell their homes to get out from house payments that are beyond their means.

I would not read more into this than that. Home price increases are a small forward step in what appears to be a slow recovery. It is still a positive step though...

US-Home-Price-Gains-Hit-Six-Year-High(2013, January 14) retrieved from http://www.ttnews.com/articles/lmtbase.aspx?storyid=2158&t=US-Home-Price-Gains-Hit-Six-Year-High

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Regulation: Progress or Profitability For Trucks, Transportation, and Carhaulers

The Double Edged Sword Of Regulation For Trucking, Carhaulers, and The Transportation Industry

Regulation in and of itself is not a bad thing. Too much of it, thrown on any one industry all at once.. is. I have attached a link to a must read article about a truck company owner who is feeling the effects of the hour of service rule. Though this is a trucking company, carhauler companies and carhauler drivers feel the effects at time of purchase and at every inspection station on the road.

The hours of service rule is one of the most contentious since some other industries do not linit the number of hours on a job. It also restricts income for the trucker or carhauler who wants to earn what they need and get back home as soon as they can. Being stuck in a hotel or in your cab, away from home and not earning, puts a lot of stress on a person to work longer total hours away from home

Yes the trucker or carhauler is not in the cab driving if they are exhausted but they are also not home. Being layed over from home is work since it is more of their disposable time being wasted. The trucker and carhauler also have to work more in terms of total time since they have to have more breaks while on the road.

I have to believe that this is going to keep a lot of potential drivers from joining the profession. At the very least it will reduce the number of new drivers that will stay in the profession once they get a taste of the Federal governments super highway of endless regulations.

Article about hours of service rule and regulation

Here is another post about the hours of service rule 

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Carhauler and The Hours Of Service Rule...

Every carhauler, car carrier company, autotransport fleet, or heavy haul knows that the hours of service rules have changed. The government is monitoring BUT they were nice enough to publish what things would be perceived in the log books as violations. This is kind of like a test where you are given the answers. Just fill the test out correctly and clearly...and you pass.

I have the listed the link below the pdf with multiple examples. I did pull a sample from the pdf of some of the scenarios they flagged as violations. Definitely worth a look by any carhauler before their next trip

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