A California trucking company owner and two employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury following a 2014 gasoline tanker explosion that killed one man and severely injured another.   The indictment charges 59-year-old trucking company owner Carl Bradley Johansson, 43-year-old Enrique “Henry” Garcia, and 66-year-old Donald Cameron Spicer. The indictment also charged the now-defunct Corona-based trucking company National Distribution Services, Inc. (NDSI) and the company that it reportedly…

Property-carrying commercial motor vehicle drivers operating their vehicle without a required registered electronic logging device (ELD) or a grandfathered automatic onboard recording device (AOBRD) will be placed out of service for 10 hours, now that the April 1 "hard enforcement" deadline has passed on the electronic logging device mandate.   ELD violations will be recorded on a roadside inspection report and the driver may be cited (issued a violation ticket…

Many truckers and industry insiders thought that a federal rule enacted late last year that requires truckers to use electronic logging devices to track driving time would disrupt freight and logistics. It hasn’t happened. This is how the device changes it all.   • Growth of Employment Drivers threatened to leave the industry, but they aren’t leaving. Trucker employment is growing, adding almost 19,000 jobs over the past year.  …

Tractor trailers ban has been instated in New York and New Jersey yet another winter storm bears down on the East coast.   The ban in New Jersey began at 8:00 p.m. on March 20th and the New York ban began at around 6:00 a.m. on March 21st.         In New Jersey, the commercial vehicle travel ban is in effect for the entire length of the following…

Semi-trucks traveling across Texas will soon be banned from entering the city limits of Odessa.   Traffic Coordinator in the City of Odessa, Texas, Hal Feldman says that the idea for the truck ban has been in the planning stages for over a year, but that, by the end of March, signs alerting truck drivers of the new policy will be raised along Interstate 20 and Loop 338.   “There’s…

Surging transportation demand is spurring trucking companies to charge as much as 30% more for long-distance routes compared with prices a year ago, and they’re hard pressed to add capacity because of a long-standing shortage of drivers. The labor scarcity is getting worse because of new federal rules to prevent big-rig operators from exceeding limits on their hours behind the wheel. Tyson Foods Inc. expects to pay $200 million extra…

Trucking companies are taking big space in the automotive industry. However, there are some actions that make those businesses fail. Here are some of the fails that trucking businesses do:               Poor Management Recruit the services of a professional management team, or a bookkeeping service in order to help you keep the numbers straight. This is one of the most important points in many small…

Citing preliminary data from trailer makers, the research firm FTR reported that trailer orders in December hit an all-time high of 47,000 units, led by purchases of dry vans, as freight demand outpaced available equipment.   According to FTR December orders, are anticipated to exceed the previous high of 45,800 reached in October 2014; total trailer orders for 2017 were 308,000 units. Fleets are ordering thousands of dry vans to…

Trucking during the holiday season can be very rewarding, as countless items need to rapidly make it from one place to another for restaurants, stores and shoppers. While trucking can be profitable during these months, it can also be dangerous as more drivers are on the road. For the drivers that do have the opportunity to spend some quality family time with their loved ones, it is hard to do…

Less than two months remained until a federal rule will require truckers to transit from paper logs to ELDs (electronic logging devices). Though there are some commercial trucks that have already equipped with ELDs, there are still many truckers who don’t have ELDs and have concerns over this mandate. Here are some listens to the effect they fear it will have once it takes effect. Wayne Clark, owner of Clark…