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Trucking News for September 2007

Jobs in Trucking (274 articles)

• On the job with a port trucker
  Port truckers like Marvin Palacios -- there are at least 2,000 in South Florida, mostly Hispanic, young and male, who haul cargo from the ports to regional distribution centers and back the other way for export -- are the tiniest players in a global transport chain comprised of giants like railroads, ocean shippers, terminal operators and intermediaries who store and consolidate cargo....
  Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 12:02pm
• FBI investigates Sen. Alves in tax bills demise
  When a family-owned Pennsylvania trucking company announced plans early this year to build a New England distribution center in Johnston and create 120 well-paying jobs, Governor Carcieri and Mayor Joseph M. Polisena hailed it as an economic triumph....
  Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 8:00am
• Career Choices - Keep Your Powder Dry
  Don't just fall into a job or career, study your interests and what's available. In today's dynamic and changing job environment it pays to research possible changes in your career and prepare for those changes....
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 2:41am
• Job Interview - How to Handle Odd Interview Questions
  Be prepared to answer odd questions during an interview. What the hiring manager is seeking is an insight into your personality and interests. This helps the interviewer determine if you would mesh well with the team. Following are tips for handling odd interview questions....
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 2:35am
• Sales And Marketing Jobs That Meet Your Needs
  The average UK university graduate has a lot to ponder as they leave their university for the professional world. Graduates need to concern themselves with everyday issues like where they are living, how they will get around the city, and paying off bills and utilities....
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 2:17am

Trucking in the News (191 articles)

• Tiger line keeps on trucking - Benton County Daily Record
  Tiger line keeps on truckingBenton County Daily Record, AR - 11 hours agoWe just kept trucking. We have leaders on the team everywhere. Everybody wants to play. Everybody wants to be part of something as great as this. ......
  Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 6:20pm
• El Paso firm blazes new NAFTA trails - El Paso Times
  El Paso firm blazes new NAFTA trailsEl Paso Times, TX - 18 hours ago(Mark Lambie / El Paso Times) When the Department of Transportation started its binational trucking program, many on the US side wondered why US truckers ......
  Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 11:18am
• US truck tonnage declines in August - Canadian Transportation & Logistics
  US truck tonnage declines in AugustCanadian Transportation & Logistics, Canada - 21 hours agoThe seasonally-adjusted truck tonnage index may have dropped in August, but is still up 0.9% compared to a year earlier, the American Trucking Associations ......
  Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 7:40am
• City on right road with truck route - Marquette Mining Journal
  City on right road with truck routeMarquette Mining Journal, MI - 19 hours agoEarly this week the Marquette City Commission amended the ordinance and directed city staff to meet with trucking companies for the purpose of establishing ......
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 9:35am
• UPS, Teamsters Near Pension Deal - Wall Street Journal
  UPS, Teamsters Near Pension DealWall Street Journal - 20 hours agoThe Central States Fund covers about 380000 active and retired workers across the trucking industry, including workers from UPS. The amount of UPS's payout ...UPS, Teamsters work on pension deal CNNMoney.comUPS says deal with Teamsters possible by Monday Reutersall 38 news articles...
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 9:00am

Truck Drivers News (61 articles)

• Truck schools rife with 'scams'
  Truckers can get their licence without ever sitting in tractor-trailer, says a veteran teacher who fears the roads may get more dangerous before Ontario moves to regulate the truck-driving instruction industry....
  Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 9:35am
• Life on the Road - Trucking News Blog Breaking News from FMCSA
  This little item just came across my news feed followed by a notice from Melissa at FMCSA, and boys and girls, they done slipped one past us! FMCSA to Initiate Real-Time Tracking for Mexican and U.S. Trucks ......
  Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 3:46am
• Fred. Comm. College Suspends Truck Driver Training
  FREDERICK, Md. The cost of running a professional truck driver training program at Frederick Community College is prompting officials to shut it down. via WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weather...
  Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 3:03am
• Longshoremen walk out to grieve fellow worker slain on job
  "Twenty-five drivers are sitting here in the office" The entire Port of Oakland shipping operation shut down Tuesday as longshoremen walked out to mark the death of one of their comrades in an apparent container loading accident aboard a German freighter. via Inside Bay Area...
  Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 1:52am
• Trucker dies when big rigs collide
  A truck driver in his late 20s was killed yesterday morning in a fiery collision near Cleardale, 644 km northwest of Edmonton. via Edmonton Sun...
  Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 12:21pm

Owner Operator Jobs in Trucking (15 articles)

• Briefs: Gap job applicants' data compromised in theft
  SAN FRANCISCO — A thief stole a laptop computer containing unencrypted personal information of 800,000 people who applied for jobs at Gap Inc., the clothing retailer announced Friday....
  Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 2:54am
• Sarasota-Bradenton a top 'cybercity'
  Sarasota-Bradenton ranked second in terms of high-tech wages when compared to pay in other types of jobs on the "Florida Cybercities" report....
  Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 12:00am
• Digital System optimizes display graphics printing workflow.
  From prepress to finishing, Oce Streamlined Workflow facilitates processes associated with rigid substrates and flexible display graphics media. Digital system consists of Zund digital flatbed cutting table up to 128 x 118 in., appropriate tools, as well as software for preparing and interpreting cutting data. System can be used to finish jobs such as contour-cut point-of-purchase displays, ......
  Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:21pm
• Dubai eyes Orangeburg investment
  It’s the kind of deal that can change communities. A planned $600 million to $700 million investment in a logistics, manufacturing and distribution “megahub” on 800 acres in Orangeburg could bring up to 10,000 jobs to the region....
  Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 4:57pm
• Mexican truckers ignite debate
  On Sept. 11, two trucks collided in northern Mexico, killing at least 34 people and injuring some 150. The wreckage caught fire shortly after a crowd arrived when ammonium nitrate being transported by one truck exploded, leaving a 65-foot crater in the road....
  Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 10:37pm

Truck Drivers News (5 articles)

• Truckers in call for freeze
  The call followed an announcement by state gas and oil conglomerate PTT that it would raise the prices of diesel and 91- and 95-octane petrol by Bt0.40 per litre today....
  Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 10:02pm
• Corn not only veggie fuel at cars' salad bar
  A diesel mechanic for years, Joel Woolf was preparing a speech about his job when he brushed up on the history of diesel engines and learned they ran on peanut oil when first introduced at the 1900 World's ......
  Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:18pm
• FTC Slammed for 'Illiterate Science' and Political Interference In...
  Truckers, Consumer Group Demand To Know Rep. Darrell Issa's Role in Generating Federal Trade Commission Opinion WASHINGTON, Sept....
  Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 12:57am
• Sharp Increase in Gas Prices
  For the average consumer, an increase in gas prices may not break the bank, but for those whose jobs depend on driving, a sharp rise like we've seen is significant....
  Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 4:16am
• Apple slashes iPhone price in move to bolster holiday sales but angers some users
  Stocks advanced Thursday as investors, trying to gauge whether the economy is holding up in the face of a weakening housing market, digested mixed data ahead of Friday's jobs report....
  Date: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 12:34am

Truth in Trucking (1 articles)

• Truck Driver Salaries
  The United States trucking industry hauls more than nine billion tons of the country's freight every year. That works out to be over 64 percent of the nation's cargo. How important is truckin......
  Date: Sat, Sep 1, 2007 5:08pm