November 20th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) isn’t heard about all that much, unless you live in a town with a big shipping port. Now they are making the news a little more often, though, because they finally see something happening that, they feel, they have to take action against. They want to stop part of [...]
November 18th, 2008 @ MReed // 2 Comments
(More) In Canada, truckers have had a difficult time getting any diesel, especially in Western areas of the country. Now they have diesel, but there’s no guarantee that it will last. When refineries can shut down for maintenance, and how much notice they have to give regarding that shut down, is at the heart of [...]
November 16th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) Extortion is an ugly thing. For one labor leader, his days of extorting money from a trucking firm appear to be over. In the Philippines, a company called San Antonio Haulers, Inc. was having trouble with a man who would initiate a labor case against the firm and then would demand money in order [...]
November 13th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) When the economy goes bad there are a lot of people who are thought about, and there are a lot of ‘poor me’ stories floating around. It’s sad that anyone would lose their job or their home or both. However, most people forget the truckers, and they are the ones who really keep this [...]
November 10th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) Some of the truckers being affected the most by the struggling economy are loggers. They are working in a broken system, where they often have a hard time making a good living anyway. Add to that the problems that they are facing from the economy, and that means that they might as well give [...]
November 7th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) The election has been on the minds of almost everyone in the country and a lot of people in other parts of the world, as well. That’s important, because it was a huge, historic thing that took place. However, many of these people don’t stop to think about the truckers that keep this country [...]
October 31st, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More)A lot of truckers might not know it, but there’s off the shelf technology that can help them drastically reduce how much fuel they use – and therefore how much money they spend. Fuel consumption for long range trucks can be reduced as much as 12%, and that works out to around 2000 gallons of [...]
October 30th, 2008 @ MReed // One Comment
(More) A former trucker in Las Vegas might be going to federal prison because he was extorting money from the casinos there. Apparently he’d gotten his hands on some customer information that was considered to be confidential. He was willing to return it, but it was going to cost the casino hundreds of thousands of [...]
October 29th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) As one of the more progressive states, California is often interested in making changes and enacting laws that affect individuals coming in and out of the state, as well. Now it looks as though that same state is going to be interested in working to stop global warming by changing the emission rules for [...]
October 28th, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
(More) A lot of the measures that were put on the ballots of many states were added before the current financial crisis. Most of them were for things like lowering certain kinds of taxes and creating a lot of additional programs that would be very expensive. That seemed to make sense at the time in [...]
