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Electrical fire destroys office of trucking company

A fire caused by electrical wiring destroyed the office of a trucking company in Warsaw last Tuesday morning.

Seven fire companies were on hand for three hours at Baker & Baker Milk Haulers at 5313 Davies Road. The estimated loss is $75,000, according to the Wyoming County Office of Emergency Services.

According to officials, electrical wiring in the wall and ceiling between the facility’s office and the shop caused the fire. The main shop area, which is used to repair the truck fleet, received only minor damage, officials said.

Responding to the fire were companies from: Warsaw, Silver Springs, Gainesville, Perry, Perry Center and Castile.

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Need to Find Loads? Choose the best Load Board!

As an owner-operator, you know you need to find loads to haul. Your business is based on running as many loaded miles as you can in order to maximize your profits and mileage. One great way to find loads is through online freight matching services, also known as load boards. These websites can save you a lot of time hunting down work, so you can spend your time earning money.

There are scores of load boards to choose from, so the trick is to find one that matches your needs so you aren’t wasting time and money.

1. Low cost

Make sure you find a freight matching service that fits within your budget. A good load board will pay for itself after a few loads.

2. User-friendly interface

Is the load board user-friendly? Look for an intuitive interface, so you don’t waste time searching for loads, posting your truck or using other value-added features.

3. Free trial

Look for a load board that offers a free trial, so you can test it to see if it suits your needs. Be weary of a load board that does not offer a free trial.

4. Mobile apps

When you’re on the go, you need a freight match service that offers the same access on your phone or tablet as what you can see on your computer.

The most popular load boards offer mobile apps that can be used while you’re on the road and away from your laptop. One of the most popular mobile load board apps is available for free download at:

  • iOS App
  • Android App

5. Find Loads with Load Board Notifications

You’ll want to use a board that sends load alerts 24/7 to your phone or email address, so you never miss an opportunity.

6. Free load posting for brokers

When it’s easier for brokers to post loads, more truckloads will be listed, offering you greater opportunities.

7. Value-added features including Quick Pay

Some load boards provide load planners, credit ratings/scores, mileage/routing and free corporate websites at no additional cost.

8.) SEARCH ANY TYPE OF TRAILER

When you are searching for a load, be aware if you select ONLY one trailer type, you will be eliminating trailer loads that have been posted that can go on several different kinds of trailers. For example, if you search ONLY UTILITY trailer, you will not see loads that can be hauled on a utility trailer or a gooseneck trailer.

9.) REVERSE SEARCH

It is always better to be in a market that has more loads leaving than coming in. Leave the origin blank and include the city names that you are searching for in the destination. Then run the search and compare the inbound loads versus outbound loads. This is an easy way to see what the market looks like where you are or where you are headed so you can avoid deadheading.

10.) DO NOT OVERBOOK

Pay attention to the size of the load and the distance of the haul. You don’t want to take on more than you can handle, and then you have limited space on your trailer for loads you can already committed to hauling.

11.) USE MULTIPLE LOAD BOARDS

You do not want to put all your eggs in one basket. If you sign up for more than one load board, it can help you get the best load. One load board does not have all the information you need. Consider using a variety of load boards so you can keep delivering loads and making money.

12.) BE PATIENT

You are not going to stumble upon the right load immediately. Sometimes it might take you an hour before you find the right one. That is just the way it works, but it is important to not get frustrated. The right load will come about eventually.

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Beemac Trucking, after tripling from 2016, plans additional capacity in 2019

One-time regional player rides wave of renewed oil and gas development with new terminals and more drivers.

Beemac Trucking started out with “two trucks and a dream” in the post-deregulation era, says Chief Operating Officer Richard Casoli. Thirty-four years later, the dream has gotten bigger and moved well beyond trucks to third-party logistics.

Established in 1984, the Pennsylvania-based Beemac was largely a regional player with a fleet ranging between 100 and 125 trucks, roughly split between company drivers and owner-operators.

But since 2016, the company has added another 325 owner-operators to its fleet. Casoli says it plans to add another 150 owner-operators to the fleet next year. This, in addition to owning thirty terminals across the country, with the latest addition of two terminals in Houston.

Casoli, who joined Beemac in 2017, says the executive team brought on by founder and Chief Executive Officer and Richard Macklin “created strong growth initiatives for the company.” As for the ability to attract owner-operators to Beemac, “it’s about treating drivers with respect, paying them fair wages, and truly delivering on what you promise.”

Compared to peers, Beemac is seeing driver turnover of 40%, below the rate seen among its peers, Casoli says.

“Drivers are not always treated well, especially by some our competitors,” Casoli said. “We deliver upon what we promise and listen to our drivers.”

Naturally, Beemac does have plenty of freight to offer drivers. The company is riding the second wave of investment in U.S. oil and gas drilling in the nation’s major shale basins.  That has helped push up demand for steel pipe and other bulk commodities carried on flatbed trailers.

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Arrive Logistics opens up new office in Chattanooga

Freight brokerage and transportation management services provider Arrive Logistics recently announced it has opened up a new office in Chattanooga, Tenn. This is the company’s third location, as it also has offices in its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, and Chicago, Ill.

Arrive officials said this new Chattanooga office was established in order for the company to accommodate its strong growth, as well as to leverage the significant freight market in Chattanooga.

The company has experienced major growth going back to its inception in 2014, going from $30.5 million in 2015 to $58.9 million in 2016 to $143.4 million in 2018. Company officials said that Arrive expects to have 2018 revenues topping $360 million.

“Opening our third office in Chattanooga is an exciting accomplishment for us,” said Matt Pyatt, CEO, and co-founder of Arrive Logistics, in a statement. “Having an office in the heart of the Freight Alley is a huge step for the expansion of Arrive Logistics and will provide vast growth opportunities for us and our customers.”

Arrive initially started out as a freight management company, with its initial investors coming from Nutrabolt Corp., a large distributor of health supplements in the United States.  And when Arrive began operations, it managed all of Nutrabolt’s $5 million annual freight spend at that time.

“We started in freight management and that allowed us to get going with a lot of carriers,” Pyatt told LM in an interview. “At that time, in 2014, the market was tight and carriers were getting a lot of revenue per load. We were able to get set up on kind of a dedicated basis, and that was kind of our differentiator from a traditional brokerage, and we had guaranteed freight from day one, which allowed us to cover our operating expenses in the business so we were not burning a lot of cash.”

From those beginnings, Arrive has seen steady growth, going from ten people in 2014 to more than 600 employees today, he said.

“We have done a good job of attracting talent from all over the industry, and we are really focusing on identifying people straight out of college and people looking for a second career,” explained Pyatt. “When we first got started, we focused on people with two-to-seven years of experience and that allowed us to scale up quickly, as they were able to get on the phones and hit the ground running and deal with the business and the carriers. The hardest part about scaling up so fast is you need to be able to train people effectively.”

When asked what influenced Arrive to expand into Chattanooga, Pyatt noted how there are several smaller brokers located there, with several of them coming from Access America, which was sold to Coyote Logistics in 2014.

And since then, he said, there have been roughly 20-plus companies that have spun out of Access America that have become small brokerages.

“That gave us the opportunity to secure some really strong leadership, and we thought Chattanooga was a really great market, because there are a lot of experienced individuals, as well as a great recruiting ground for colleges, and people like living in that part of the country, too. The real driving reason was that Access America was a company that was able to do heavy haul, over-dimensional, and flatbed, areas in which we have previously struggled. They were also strong in power-only. Those are four modes we were able to beef up with Arrive, and the talent we were able to bring in allowed us to expand into those verticals. With consolidation in the market, you need to do everything and everything well if you want to continue to scale as a broker partner to all these customers.”

By the end of 2018, Pyatt said he expects Arrive’s Chattanooga office to have around 25 employees, with a goal of 75 employees by the end of 2019.

As for customer benefits with this new office, Pyatt said that the flatbed market tends to be one in which it can be challenging for brokers to be successful in, as it is highly fragmented and can be very owner-operator-centric.

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Fire destroys Montgomery trucking garage

MONTGOMERY The co-owner of a garage that burned in Montgomery on Saturday afternoon said the building is a total loss. About six area fire companies responded to a two-alarm fire at the garage off Route 17K about 12:30 p.m.The garage is co-owned by Mary Briggs and her husband, Frank, who lived there. The two operated Big Briggs’ Trucking until they left the business in 2008, Mary Briggs said, adding that the property is still partly owned by the company.”I don’t know what happened,” she said about 1 p.m. Her husband was sitting on a stretcher nearby with emergency responders, who said he was OK.

Mary Briggs said she left the property about 9 a.m. By the time she arrived in Middletown, Briggs’ husband called to say the garage was engulfed in flames.”He said it started somewhere in the kitchen,” she said, adding that she was still out of breath from running about half a mile to the property from the nearby Citgo gas station.

The road was blocked off by fire police to accommodate the large response. Briggs was not sure if her husband was inside when the fire started, but he managed to save their dogs and cats, she said. She noted he had to drag her car up the driveway’s hill because he could not get back inside to grab her keys or his cell phone. The garage mostly housed mechanical tools from the trucking business and some of Frank Briggs’ possessions.”I’m just surprised that it even happened, or how did it happen? It had to be quick,” she said. Incident Commander Brian Quinn, second assistant chief at the Montgomery Fire Department, said nobody was harmed during the fire, but a Coldenham firefighter was being evaluated for chest pain.

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Trucking needs more sensible regs, not fewer: TCA

– There is no appetite in Washington to reduce trucking regulations, but there is great potential to make the regulations that trucking operates under more sensible. He said electronic logging devices (ELDs) are generating the data needed to fine-tune trucking regulations, including hours-of-service.
To lobby for fewer regulations when fatal truck crashes are trending upwards is the wrong approach, Heller said. “Talking about reducing regulations is not the conversation you want to have right now,” he said. trucking industry was in compliance, Heller said. The data being generated by the devices is allowing fleets to better track detention time and can be used by policymakers to design better regulations. It’s painting a more accurate picture of what drivers face on a daily basis…the data mined through ELDs is astronomical.” When discussing regulations with lawmakers, “data is king,” Heller said.
Infrastructure funding is another issue facing the trucking industry in the U.S. The trucking industry is pushing for a fuel tax increase, but other options include: a vehicle miles traveled tax; tolls; public-private partnerships; repatriation (bringing foreign money back into the U.S.

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Trucker health: a growing crisis

Siphiwe Baleka was once a champion swimmer for Yale University, who just barely missed out on qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team.

Being physically fit was always a part of his life. That was, however, until he became a truck driver. Within two months, he gained 15 lbs.—or 10% of his total body weight—and his eyes were opened.    and is among the most recognized health advocates within trucking, even being dubbed “the fitness guru of the trucking industry” by The Atlantic magazine. This success is only fueling Baleka’s anger.

He believes far too many in trucking are failing to give drivers the education and tools they need to live a healthy lifestyle.

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Regulations, trucking companies curb distractions

Truck driver Gary Hartley know this first-hand.I don’t believe in talking on the phone while I’m driving, he said while on a break at a Sapp Bros. truck stop on a recent fall morning. He said hes been driving for more than 40 years Since his career started, Hartley said his record shows him as being accident-free.What falls under the category of distracted driving for professional drivers is specifically defined by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said Jamie Maus, vice president of safety and compliance at Werner Enterprises.
It says anything that is considered more than a push of one button is considered distracted driving or without a hands-free device, she said. The company is making sure its drivers comply with federal regulations and its policy – a very costly pursuit.So within the trucking industry, we spend about $9.5 billion annually on safety, Maus said.
The trucking company explains the price tag includes constant training and paid safety incentives.Otherwise, if authorities catch truck drivers using their phones, they can face a fine and/or a license suspension.If Werner Enterprises discovers a driver is using his or her phone, no first warning will be issued. That’s a terminable offense, she said, and many companies out there have that same logic.

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All kinds of trucks

This 1911 Walker Electric Model 43, displayed in the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, was a milk delivery truck in downtown Chicago. The Walker brand, native to Chicago, was in production from 1906-1942, longer than any other electric truck in the U.S.WALCOTT, Iowa A few hundred miles away from North Dakota the story of this nations trucking is told at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum.

The museum is located near the worlds largest truckstop, the Iowa 80 Truckstop, near Walcott on the east side of Iowa. The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum has 100 trucks, said Heather DeBaillie, Iowa 80 Truckstops marketing manager. A dream of Iowa 80 Truckstop founder, the late Bill Moon, the trucking museum is a place where visitors can learn about how the trucking industry has evolved. Moon, who died in 1992, loved trucks and trucking, and become a collector of antique trucks and a pioneer leader of the American Truck Historical Society, according to information in the museum.

A restoration building is near the museum. Eloise Ogden/MDN A 1910 Avery Tractor/Gasoline Farm Wagon shown in the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum is one of only six Avery trucks known to still exist and one of the oldest trucks in the museum. It was advertised to do the work of six to eight horses and could haul up to 100 bushels of wheat, pull a three-bottom plow or even run a threshing machine through an additional belt pulley.About 17,000-20,000 people visit the museum during the year.

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Trucking and trade

Evan Erlandson, the owner of E2 Trucking, underscored the impact cross-border trade has on his industry and individual business, which concentrates on hauling bulk freight between Manitoba and South Dakota. He said the primary reasons for choosing to run a north-south route into the U.S. was because of how well the roads are maintained south of the border and the high number of rest stops for his drivers. Schuler pointed out that in the U.S., specifically the Dakotas where E2 Trucking operates, they do not pay for a health care system as is the case in Manitoba, which affords them more funds to be put toward infrastructure.

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