Nov 5, 2010

Test Report of CSA Provided by Agency

BIGrigdave , CSA 2010

Check out this report found on Truckersnews.com.  Written on October 21, 2010 by Jill Dunn.  It’s the CSA Test Report.  Read how much more productive CSA 2010 is than its predecessor.  It is very interesting.

“AGENCY PROVIDES CSA TEST REPORT

In a report to Congress, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration disclosed the 30-month field test of its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 yielded positive results.

Last month, the agency reported the Phase I and preliminary results for Phase II of the field testing that began in February 2008. It also updated its CSA 2010 Spend Plan, which outlines CSA’s timeline, costs and capabilities through full deployment.

Phase I indicated the test group reached 44 percent more carriers than the non-test group and 62 percent of investigations included a follow-up with the carrier to address safety deficiencies, such as a Notice of Violation, compared with 32 percent in the non-test group.

Phase II preliminary results included the following indications:
• The test group reached 37 percent more carriers than the non-test group.

• CSA 2010 has conducted carrier investigations with fewer resources, demonstrating a 52 percent increase in the number of investigations per investigator.

• Forty-eight percent of test group investigations included a follow-up with the carrier to address safety deficiencies, compared with 33 percent in the non-test group.

In December, the CSA deployment will include replacing SafeStat with the Safety Measurement System to identify high-risk carriers and form the basis for prioritizing and assigning interventions. Also that month, the agency will begin issuing warning letters to carriers nationwide.”

This shows how the progression is moving and where the next step to complete utilization is going.

http://www.truckersnews.com/agency-provides-csa-test-report/

Oct 28, 2010

New Board Members for Women In Trucking

BIGrigdave Trucking News, Uncategorized

Women in Trucking just announced recently in their board meeting that there would be three new board members, while accepting three charter directors’ resignations.

The President of the Truckload Carriers Association, is filling the empty seat that used to be Deborah Sparks, who is TCA’s vice president of development.

Parts Group of Navistar President Phyllis Cochran is now taking the seat that was H. Lenora Hardee, Ph.D., and manager of Navistar’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Group.

The last seat replaced is by Jan Hamblin, J.J. Keller & Associates’ corporate sales manager of strategic accounts.  This was the vacated seat of Jayne Gunn, the former director of Sunbury Transport, in Canada.

Leigh Foxall, the chairwoman of Women In Trucking, stated, “Our goal is to represent the trucking industry as a whole.”

I quote TruckingInfo.com’s article, “Women In Trucking Announces Board of Director Changes”,

“Women In Trucking was established to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles face by women working in the trucking industry.”

This is also their Mission Statement.

Their home page on their website states:

“This organization has been created for you, both men and women, who are either involved in the industry, or have a career interest in being a part of one of the largest networks of professionals in North America. Nearly one out of fourteen workers are already employed in jobs that support the transportation industry, but the need for drivers and other trucking professionals continues to increase.”

Membership dues go towards motivating the transportation industry to search for and find any obstacles preventing both men and women from considering the career path in the transportation industry.  For more information go to http://www.womenintrucking.org.

http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=72006&news_category_id=18

http://www.womenintrucking.org/

Oct 28, 2010

Fuel Reduction in Trucks is the Way of the Future

BIGrigdave Industry News

Today I was reading an article called “Government to propose truck fuel efficiency rules” in the dailyherald.com website that was written by the Associated Press and I realized that this could be a good direction for trucks to be built.

The article talks about the Obama administration creating a new ruling for fuel efficiency that is going to affect the transportation industry.

The group called the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are working together to create a more environmental friendly truck model beginning to be sold in 2014 up to 2018.  Only medium and heavy-duty trucks are involved in this ruling from President Obama’s administration.

The plan from the White House wants a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions as well as fuel usage in long haul trucks.  These include “bid rig tractor-trailers, vocational trucks such as garbage trucks and transit and school buses, and work trucks such as heavy-duty versions of the Ford F-Series, Dodge Ram and Chevrolet Silverado.”

The article never did tell their secret of how it is going to be done, except using the word “hybrid”.  Hybrid gives one a thought of bio fuels and motors that can run the bio fuels.

Sure, there will be a higher cost in the front end of buying the new trucks, but the end results have several good financial as well as environmental repercussions.  The vehicles, no matter what type, will cost a lot more but the fuel mileage will save money in the monthly overhead costs and the environment will have less pollution for our children to breathe in as well as the resources that will be needed.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20101024/business/101029805/

Oct 22, 2010

Truck Driving Schools are Popular Right Now

BIGrigdave Truck Driving School

Truck driving school seems to be the hot education training right now.   Mark Carlson of the Herald staff in heraldnet.com wrote an article called “10 forward gears” in which he talks about the popularity of truck driving schools right now.

Mark’s thoughts were interesting in that he feels that the truck driving schools are well liked right now due to the starting pay of $40,000.

Another article, named “Trucking Payrolls Steady as Unemployment rate Holds at 9.6%” in the Transport Topics Newsletter, talks about how the unemployment is still up and is 9.6% here in the United States while truck driving jobs are always available.  In fact, to quote the Transport Topics Newsletter, “Transportation and warehousing employment rose by 9,600, led by gains in transit, couriers and messengers, and warehousing and storage employees.”

With so many people out of work and for so long, people are starting to view new careers where there is stability for their livelihood and to care for their families.

Truck driving jobs are not hurt by the economy because people still need to eat, even when times are hard.  Plus, products still need to move from point A to point B and trucks are an inexpensive way to move the shipments.

There are hundreds of truck driving school classes being taught all across the country.  The best schools are those that guarantee a job when finished.  Once accepted into the schools, the graduates have a paycheck for the company that trained them.  Another good reason to go to a school that gives you a job is that they will train you well, wanting good drivers to drive for them.

If you are looking into driving for a living, look into the bigger trucking companies that have schools attached.

http://heraldnet.com/article/20101010/BLOG08/710109899/-1/NEWS01

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=25323

http://www.truckdrivingjobsblog.com/truck-driving-jobs-are-recession-proof

Oct 10, 2010

Electronic on Board Recorders Available Through NavStar

BIGrigdave , , Trucking Technology

There is new technology out there that is being sold to trucking companies and fleets.  NavStar Technologies brought technology here to the United States.  Here is their opportunity to break into our market with the newly mandated regulation for an electronic on board recorder, or as it is called, the EOBR.

Called the NSTRAK Vehicle Asset Tracker System.  It is to be introduced here in the United States around October of 2010.  NavStar’s chairman of the Board of Directors, N. Douglas Pritt, stated:

“This is a huge opportunity that we have been following closely for the past several months. It is time for us to officially enter into the market with a hardware/software solution what will prove to be substantially more cost effective than current products being discussed.”

With government rulings that truck drivers need to limit their hours, the EOBR monitors their time on the road.  In fact, there are some companies in the United States that the US Federal Government regulates to verify that they have a monitor that is electronic instead of paper logs that the trucking industry has used for decades.

NavStar’s technology can now do that for the trucking industry and fleets.

NavStar brags that their product “delivers accurate, real-time information on the location and activities of the fleet vehicles. It enables companies to gain deeper insight into their daily field operations, and take actions to increase profits and be more competitive.”

NavStar’s main market is the trucking and delivery industries.  They also sell GPS systems to consumer and commercial markets here in the United States as well as the international customers.

http://satellite.tmcnet.com/topics/satellite/articles/98777-navstar-technologies-enters-us-trucking-industry-mandate-eobr.htm

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