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Carrier Procure-Mate

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Manufactures

Sales Trend of Medium Truck Types

With the improvement in the global economy the sales of medium-duty truck is showing an upward trend. According to the medium truck, Navistar this is the time for rising sale competition. The company intends to grab at least 50 percent sales of medium duty truck. The introduction of 2010 spec diesels has got momentum due to this market revival. Navistar’s vision to get half of the class 6 and class 7 vehicles in his account has left all dealers across the globe to make huge sales. However, in August, International trucks have crossed the sales target of Navistar therefore leaving no option for Navistar but to focus on the sales of heavy trucks.
To make Navistar’s dream come true the company has launched new incentive programs which includes big advertisements of the products and sales incentives. One International Dura Star sale is complimented with an incentive of $3000. The product training was laid emphasis on during “Boot Camps” run by the company. Hebe the company president said, they aim for this target sale against a tough competition which includes Cummins Inc. and other builders of medium duty trucks. Since there products and service excel in the market therefore they look at achieving this target.
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Scope for competition: The medium duty trucking companies has lured the builders recently. General Motors and Isuzu were assembling truck of class4 to class7 at its plant in Flinch MI. With the GM’s closure of the plant in 2008, Isuzu business was highly affected and it almost lost the market position in pre 2010 diesels.
If we see the sales number of class 6 trucks it is lesser than class7 trucks. However, the percentage growth of class 6 is much higher than class 7. This figure indicated the increasing trend of the class 6 truck. This growth can be much accounted for the fact that CDL compliance of class 6 drivers and owner operator job is mush less.
The slow sales market of 2009 and emission regulations implied, the introduction of 2011 models in delayed. This is primarily because the builder has enough stock left to last 2010 sales. The truck builder started adding the EPA-spec diesels in their 2010 models and stated them as their 2011 models. The new models which have started now will start as the come 2012 models leaving a very little scope for true 2011 models.
The increase in class 6 models is also because the class 6 drivers can take the available loads as per there wish without any CDL liabilities. 2010 spec diesel freightliners is now available with different exhaust systems to haul different truck bodies. There is a provision of programmable chasis controls.

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Trucker News

Vehicle Maintenance – A Necessity for Truck Drivers

As per the new safety program introduced under CSA 2010 by FMCSA, the vehicle maintenance is a must and the most important risk factor associated with the fleets. In this line Rair, a carrier risk safety management company has issued a report to compare the safety measures introduced by CSA and the older SafeStat reports. As per the information released by CSA the larger fleets that are under the maintenance violation risk are 10-15%. The smaller fleet sizes are comparatively very high in ratio for the violation of maintenance regulations. Now with the open CSA reports, the fleet owners can simply see the scores to find out where they are lacking. Despite of all the sources and information available there is BASIC’s violation.

What steps should be taken to get the bare minimum maintenance level for the fleets:
Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR): According to the Rair president, DVIR should performed everyday and recorded on the form by the truck drivers, may it be a hotshot, reefer or flatbed drivers. To carry out the task effectively and to tackle the issue in case any problem is identified the driver should be trained to do so. In present day scenario DVIR reporting is thought of as another paper work on which the driver and trucking company manages simply put their signature. In such cases, when the vehicle is inspected on the road many maintenance problems come into picture which then become the maintenance violation and are penalized .
The maintenance does not only mean the repair of any non-performing part but it should be done before and after every shipment is done by the fleet. The details of the regulations are specified in CFR title no 49 under the parts 393 and 396. The DWS Fleet Services president Darry Stuart lays emphasis on the importance of CSA 2010 maintenance BASIC.
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Before the driver starts for the shipment of loads available the driver vehicle inspection report (DVIR) and the vehicle condition report (VCR) should be carefully made. The report should cover the crucial aspects of the fleet maintenance such as the checking of steering, parking brake, lights and reflectors, service brakes, trailer brakes, horn, mirrors, windshield wipers, tires, rims, wheels and emergency tool kit.
If the truck driver job regarding the correct reporting of DVIR is performed well then their CSA rating will improve and the regular maintenance will not pose them any big maintenance issue. However if they do not follow the regulations then their business is likely to get affected both due to the bad rating as well as the delay in delivery as the under maintained truck will be first sent back to cover up all the maintenance required. The best solution to this situation is to perform a detailed post trip evaluation and make the truck ready for next dispatch then to do a pre-trip evaluation and postpone the dispatch in case of any fault.

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Carriers

How to Get the Best of your Reefer Truck

Driving a refrigerated truck is a work of its own kind. This work, though seeming similar, has a lot of technical differentiation from other work.  It takes a very experienced trucker to drive a reefer truck. This fact makes this work very unique. In this article I will discuss about the ways to get the best from your reefer truck. Driving reefer truck is the most hectic among truck driving jobs. Reefer drivers have to go through a lot of tough conditions then a normal truck driver.

The loads available of different kind must be transported in the containers of different size. For the fruits and vegetables any size is good to go but if you want to opt for some other stuff to transport like some scientific and research material then the reefer driver must understand the responsibilities related to this and the proper procedure must be opted.

Reefer trucking

For reefer drivers, it is very important to stabilize the temperature during the trucking. A swing more than 5 or 10 degree can waste the purpose of the transportation.  One have to cope with all the facts including the insulation cost and the maintaining the swing value very low. Ambient value with proper aging and condition is very important in the transportation. If you fail to manipulate all the factors involved the operation will not be economical and you will not earn enough money as desired.

Maintaining all the mentioned factor during a constant and continuous run is also an important factor. There are several other issues too which must be properly addressed in a reefer trucking job too. These factors include the temperature and the capacity of the shipment.  The capacity varies with the initial investment made. An optimum relation must be maintained between the initial investment and the capacity so that the maximum possible profit is obtained during the operation without financial load on the driver.

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The driver must consider every factor related to the particular run. The client might ask different type of service in different projects. The reefer driver must ask the question from himself that what is the possible benefit of this operation are and whether he will be able to successfully handle the job or not. In this scenario another factor of the trailer size also comes into the play. The type of job is highly dependent over the trailer size.

Here I am discussing few bullet points to suggest the optimum use of reefer truck for any trucking company:

1.       Perform all the operation in the proper way to save yourself from the wastage of time and make the maximum use of your resources

2.       You must not run the units if the doors are open because it is simply the waste of power and the effort.

3.       Use the max value of possible insulation to reduce losses because it may make the initial cost high but later it will be very useful for saving the cost of maintaining temperature.

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Lifestyle Trucker News

Independent Trucking Associations – Motor Carriers Associations

Organization
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America’s Independent Truckers’ Association, Inc.
601-924-9606 601-924-9613
National Association of Small Trucking
Companies
800-264-8580 615-451-0041
American Trucking Association,
Inc.
703-838-1700 703-684-5751
National Association of Independent
Truckers, Inc.
800-821-8014 816-891-0000
Owner-Operated Independent Drivers
Association
816-229-5791
Southern Loggers’ Co-Operative 318-641-8081 318-641-8082
Truckinfo.net 724-349-3224
Truckflix.com 417-472-6970 417-472-3477
State Forestry Associations
State Loggers Associations

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Truckinginfo.com 949-261-1636 949-261-2904
Alabama Trucking
Association, Inc.
334-834-3983 334-262-6504
Alaska
Trucking Association, Inc.
907-276-1149 907-274-1946
Arizona Trucking Association 602-252-7559 602-253-1848
Arkansas
Motor Transport Association, Inc.
501-372-3462 501-376-1810
California Trucking
Association, Inc.
916-373-3500 916-371-7558
Colorado Motor Carriers
Association, Inc.
303-433-3375 303-477-6977
Motor Transport Association of Connecticut, Inc. 860-520-4455 860-520-4567
Delaware Motor Transport Association, Inc. 302-672-7763 302-698-1305
District of Columbia Motor Transport Association 202-543-5149
Florida Trucking
Association, Inc.
850-222-9900 850-222-9363
Georgia Motor Trucking
Association, Inc.
404-876-4313 404-874-9765
Hawaii
Transportation Association, Inc.
808-833-6628 808-833-8486
Idaho Motor
Transport Association, Inc.
208-342-3521 208-343-8397
Illinois
Transportation Association, Inc.
630-654-0884
Indiana Motor
Truck Association, Inc.
317-630-4682 317-638-5380
Iowa Motor Truck
Association, Inc.
515-244-5193 512-244-2204
Kansas Motor Carriers
Association, Inc.
913-267-1641 785-266-6551
Kentucky Motor Transport
Association, Inc.
502-695-4055 502-695-9026
Louisiana Motor Transport Association, Inc. 225-928-5682 225-928-0500
Maine Motor Transport
Association, Inc.
207-623-4128 207-623-4096
Maryland Motor Truck
Association, Inc.
410-644-4600 410-644-2537
Massachusetts
Motor Transport Association, Inc.
617-270-6880 781-229-0458
Michigan Trucking
Association, Inc.
517-393-2053 517-321-0884
Minnesota Trucking
Association, Inc.
612-641-7351 651-641-8995
Mississippi Trucking
Association, Inc.
601-354-0616 601-354-4371
Missouri Motor
Carriers Association, Inc.
314-634-3388 573-634-4197
Montana Motor
Carriers Association, Inc.
406-442-6600 N/A
Nebraska Motor
Carriers Association, Inc.
402-476-8504 402-476-0579
Nevada Motor Transport
Association, Inc.
702-331-6884 775-673-1700
New Hampshire Motor
Transport Association, Inc.
603-224-7337 603-225-9361
New Jersey Motor Truck
Association, Inc.
908-254-5000 732-613-1745
New
Mexico Trucking Association, Inc.
505-884-5575 505-884-3661
New York State Motor
Truck Association
518-464-5065 518-464-5069
North Carolina
Trucking Association, Inc.
919-834-0387 919-832-0390
North Dakota Motor Carriers Association, Inc. 701-223-2700 701-223-4324
Ohio Trucking
Association, Inc.
614-221-5375 614-221-3717
Oklahoma Associated
Motor Carriers
405-843-9488 405-843-7310
Oregon Trucking
Association
503-289-6888 503-513-0008
Pennsylvania Motor Truck
Association
717-761-7122 717-761-8434
Rhode Island Trucking
Association, Inc.
401-438-0410 401-729-5220
South Carolina
Trucking Association, Inc.
803-799-4306 803-254-7148
South Dakota Trucking
Association
605-334-8871 605-334-1938
Tennessee Trucking
Association, Inc.
615-255-0558 615-777-2024
Texas Motor Transport
Association, Inc.
512-478-2541 512-474-6494
Utah Trucking Association 801-973-9370 801-973-8515
Vermont Truck and Bus Association, Inc. 802-479-1778 802-479-1395
Virginia Trucking Association, Inc. 804-355-5371 804-358-1374
Washington Trucking
Association
(253) 838-1650 (253) 838-1793
West Virginia
Motor Association, Inc.
304-345-2800 304-345-0308
Wisconsin Motor Carriers
Association
608-833-8200 608-833-2875
Wyoming
Motor Carriers Association, Inc.
307-234-1579 307-234-7082
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Business

Insurance and Trucking Industry

Insurance is the thing which is necessary in every field, whatever the case; it may be your personal insurance, car insurance, family insurance and house insurance. Insurance may be look burden in the initial time when you are paying its installments but at the time you have some problem in insurance thing then in that case you will feel that how important role insurance can play. Suppose you are paying installments for your truck from last one year than in that case you will feel burden of insurance over you but let your car is stolen by someone or accident then you can claim your whole loss and in that case you will feel importance of insurance.
Importance of the insurance increases if you are in the industry of something which involve high risk and one of the common examples of this type is trucking industry with high truck loads available. As generally covers large distance or loaded by tones of goods so it may have problem anytime and if you have its right type of insurance then you can claim whole money every time you have problem. As truck travels in the night time generally so chances of the accidents increases, in that case also if you have third party insurance then you will have full claim.

Legal issues related to trucking insurance:
Now a day insurance of the truck and other vehicle is must just after you purchase your new vehicle or truck otherwise you can be thttp://findfreightloads.com/blog/wp-admin/post-new.phphe victim of laws. You can take help of any insurance company for your insurance but before that always check the background of that company. Does it pay a full claim to its customers or not, how much time it takes to pay your claim, otherwise once you have insurance then you can do nothing. Use an advice of the industry expert to be safe. Many load boards feature different insurance companies and their covers.

Primary Liability Insurance:
This type of insurance is must for the owner operator job; this insurance covers all types of accidents and takes care of the claims related to the injuries of your driver or other related person on the truck at the time of accident. The insurance cost varies and depends on the type of the truck means size and initial cost of the truck. It should be in the range of $70000 to $80000. Always keep in mind that your insurance should always be legal otherwise the other party lawyer may file sue against you. It is really going to affect drivers’ employment.

General Liability Insurance:
This type of insurance take care of the trucking companies, whatever loss you will have to your truck in the accidents, you can claim for that. It care about all types of accidents whether it is on the road, parking lots, some halt during the journey and such type of accidents. The cost of this type of insurance is generally higher than the previous one as the money involved in the claim may be very large and sometimes it may be equal to the cost of the truck.

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Business

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Owner Operators Trucker News

Owner Operator Jobs Affected by Fuel Price Rise

The rate of diesel fuel is rising constantly and they are at their highest with almost dollar 3.25 per gallon. But according to the department of energy the situation is not that bad yet. The prices could be as high as almost 5 dollars per gallon as they were in summer of 08. But still the price is highest of last one year.
The lowermost price for diesel oil charges in 10 was Jan, 4 at $2.7, thus there was almost 18% increase in consumption. In my point of assessment, we’re beholding for equal mechanism to take place in diesel oil rates in 11. That will provide all of us rate of $3.9. I do not see whether it would become that much problem, but still let us stare what’s fronting all of us in diesel oil rates in 11.

* China’s boom continues
* Account ranks goes down continuously
* Economy lingers to improve mist, which would upsurge trucking claim
* Congress is about to make increase in tax over the fuel prices
* Increase in the consumption of oil all over the world

Let us yield a stare at every of such problems, and you will soon realize the base of the problem which empowers everything. Considering all these issues it is sure that the prices will go high in 11. The only thing to look is this that wills the prices go as high as summer of 08 or not. The only thing that can save us from that is the strong govt. policies and that are already going against the prices, which makes sure that the prices will go high, making it difficult to truck diving jobs.

Reasons of high diesel oil price
China and India are such a topic which is going to affect this issue very much. All the people in these countries are going to ride in motorizes bikes and cars leaving the bullock carts and pulling carts behind. The high population of almost 2.5 billion is certain to take a huge amount of oil which makes the consumption high making the demand high and thus making the prices in here very much high. Check our load board for more articles affecting the available loads and owner operator jobs.
Apart from this the fuel needs of the army are also increasing and a lot of oil is going into reserves making the demand even high which makes the prices more up surging. So you must be sure about the increase in price of the oil in America.
The only thing which can stop this from happening is the govt. policies and that too are going against the common people. Certainly the govt. is going to raise the taxes and this will increase the already high prices of the diesel fuel. The only thing that can save this from happening is tax cut and that is not going to happen.

Planning for fuel management
Now a fuel management plan is a very good idea. This can save the waste of a lot of fuel. Making us enable with more availability of fuel. This can positively affect drivers’ employment.

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Business

Debate over the Working Time of Truck Drivers

In spite of a period of struggle by the organization, there is no indisputable situation that single version of law is superior to a new in positions of security and realism. Neither is probable to stay: Trucking is extremely varied and multifaceted occupation, it’s tough to count special effects of protection guidelines. Possibly by way of results, the laws are intensely debated.
In the meantime, trucking companies and execution community endure to mien occupation in operating limitation that is matter to modification by years by means of lawsuit developments and law implementation progress.
Below the expressions of the contract with Citizens and further assemblies tangled in frequent proceedings against present rulings, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has till twenty six July 2011, to present fresh regulation. The petitioner have the backup of permission to come back to the law court if even fresh ruling does not suit them, their original declaration clearly specifies that they do not liable to be reassuring.
They admit the organization’s inclination of modifying the eleven hour day-to-day reefer drivers perimeter to only ten hours, but strictly oppose their readiness to reflect possession of eleven hour limitation. They understand the obligation that drivers grow 2 nights of the break in their thirty four hour resume as the development but yet will favor the forty eight hour resume.
On another sideways, American trucking association speaks the suggestion is “excessively difficult, block occupied of pointless limitations on expert truck motorists and on its central, would considerably decrease trucking output.”
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The organization told that it’s suggesting variations in present time of facility instructions to provide motorists litheness to receive a breakdown through daytime and decrease fitness and care dangers of lengthy times of labor. Here is a fact on variations and organization’s foundation.
Everyday motoring Time
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is bearing in mind the option of preventive everyday heavy motoring hours to ten hours in spite of the present eleven hours in spite of heavy loads available. The organization told that it favors ten hour duty time but still is observing for remarks and statistics on the present subject.
The essence of the organization’s explanation on present opinion is this that it doesn’t have sufficient dependable info to create the appeal any method.
“Assumed the vague but established association amid exhaustion, time about action, hour’s sleeplessness, and hour’s labor, here is sensible dispute for preventive motoring time to ten hours’ time,” the assistance speaks. It’s watching the statistics to compute several alterations in danger amid ten and eleven hours’ time. “A reply will crack on deliberating whole amount of smashes in every period and proportion of the heavy driving which receive residence in every sixty minutes.”
The organization confesses American trucking associations spat that preventing driving period to ten hours’ time will need transporters to employ additional inexpert drivers to cover available loads that will upsurge danger over the highway, nonetheless speaks the problem is not by way of grave as American Trucking Association proposes.
Most cargo are little heaved, and such truck loads available heavy motorists aren’t probable to drive ten hours period, not talking about eleven, the organization stated. In lengthy tow processes, twenty seven percentage of heavy motoring time lengthy into eleventh period, but it will be definitely increase exercise and administration of fresh drivers, the organization stated.