Monthly Archives: April 2012

Slow international demand hurts UPS

United Parcel Service missed sales and earnings forecast for the first quarter as the world’s largest package shipper experiences a slowdown in Asia and Europe.

Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2012/04/slow-international-demand-hurts-ups?fromrss=1

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Speed Limiters and Lack of Safety

Speed Limiters are not about Safety or the Environment as the Ontario Trucking Association, Road Safe America and the American Trucking Association claim.

These Government Lobbyist Organizations represent the largest trucking concerns in Canada and the United States.

Their primary goal: To increase profits and decrease competition in the trucking industry. This is the only logical reason speed limiters are being promoted for future legislation in the USA.

Here’s a video of OOIDA Life Member, Ed Wesselius of Guelph, Ontario explaining why speed governors are actually more dangerous and create added driver stress, fatigue, and frequent incidents of road rage against the driver’s. The volume is low, crank up your speaker’s. Speed Limiters and Lack of Safety

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Source: http://fastertruck.com/news/6/Speed-Limiters-and-Lack-of-Safety.html

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Questions about Richmond, In. school

I understand that Richmond is a newer training campus. What is it like? Is the hotel decent? What kind of personalities do the trainers have? Do they…

Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/cr-england/176715-questions-about-richmond-in-school.html

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UltraONE Double Points

Not sure if the company drivers out there or even all the owner operators are aware, but for the next month TA and Petro select locations are…

Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/swift/176548-ultraone-double-points.html

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Additional Loads

Hey I’ve got a question about taking on additional loads for cross country truckers.

I don’t know how trucking loads work, but I think it’s…

Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/questions-to-truckers-from-general-public/176387-additional-loads.html

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