July 15th, 2010 @ MReed // No Comments
The price of gasoline has dropped 11.7 cents in the past two weeks, placing the national average at around $3.98 per gallon according to GasPriceWatch.com. The drop mirrors a decline of an estimated $20 per barrel in oil prices over the last two weeks. This is the first time gasoline has been under $4.00 since [...]
April 22nd, 2009 @ MReed // 2 Comments
Most of the truckers out there can get the word out to people about important highway issues. They are essentially rolling billboards. With that in mind, they are being used to support the ‘move over’ law. This is a law that says that people must move over to accommodate emergency vehicles on the side of [...]
April 2nd, 2009 @ MReed // 3 Comments
The small-time truck drivers are angry, and they’re mostly angry with President Obama because they don’t feel like he’s taking their trade interests and their security seriously enough when it comes to the Mexico border. Right now, the US truckers generally don’t have any incentive to go to Mexico and to be competitive there, since [...]
February 28th, 2009 @ MReed // No Comments
Like any state, Ohio had projects that it wanted to work on, some of which were derailed by the economic problems that the country is facing. In order to get those back burner projects moving forward, it’s been proposed that there would be tolls used. Toll roads are becoming increasingly uncommon in this country, but [...]
February 20th, 2009 @ MReed // 3 Comments
In the state of Colorado, the fees that trucks have to pay are going up. The vehicle registration fees are designed to pay for repairs to bridges and roads, and they amount to a lot of money over time for these projects. There will also be a two dollar a day increase in what a [...]
February 10th, 2009 @ MReed // One Comment
After a period of decline, it seems as though oil is on the rise again, which is pushing both gasoline and diesel prices higher. While the price at the pump didn’t come down as much for diesel as it did for gasoline, both of them will be rising in the very near future, and some [...]
January 31st, 2009 @ MReed // One Comment
Once again, consumer prices have gone down. A lot of that has to do with the recent and dramatic fall in gasoline prices, but what you pay at the pump isn’t the only area that’s been affected. There are some concerns about deflation, but they are mostly low at this point. However, the change in [...]
January 29th, 2009 @ MReed // No Comments
If you go to the truck stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, you can get more than just fuel for your truck. You can also get fuel for your body in the way of food and fuel for your soul in the way of prayer. The truck stop doesn’t impose prayer on anyone, so if you’re not [...]
January 26th, 2009 @ MReed // No Comments
In Connecticut, there are considerations underway about reinstating some of the tolls on the roads. However, anyone wanting to do this will have an uphill battle because individuals who drive those roads quite often aren’t interested in paying money to do so. The idea of reinstating the tolls came about for two reasons – because [...]
January 23rd, 2009 @ MReed // 7 Comments
In order to try to keep trucking company YRC from going under, its lenders have given it an extension on paying bills until the middle of February. This can allow discussions to amend its credit agreement to continue. YRC had a few missteps that took place in 2007 and 2008, and since then the company [...]
