A fire caused by electrical wiring destroyed the office of a trucking company in Warsaw last Tuesday morning. Seven fire companies were on hand for three hours at Baker & Baker Milk Haulers at 5313 Davies Road. The estimated loss is $75,000, according to the Wyoming County Office of Emergency Services. According to officials, electrical […]
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As an owner-operator, you know you need to find loads to haul. Your business is based on running as many loaded miles as you can in order to maximize your profits and mileage. One great way to find loads is through online freight matching services, also known as load boards. These websites can save you a
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One-time regional player rides wave of renewed oil and gas development with new terminals and more drivers. Beemac Trucking started out with “two trucks and a dream” in the post-deregulation era, says Chief Operating Officer Richard Casoli. Thirty-four years later, the dream has gotten bigger and moved well beyond trucks to third-party logistics. Established in
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Freight brokerage and transportation management services provider Arrive Logistics recently announced it has opened up a new office in Chattanooga, Tenn. This is the company’s third location, as it also has offices in its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, and Chicago, Ill. Arrive officials said this new Chattanooga office was established in order for the company
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MONTGOMERY The co-owner of a garage that burned in Montgomery on Saturday afternoon said the building is a total loss. About six area fire companies responded to a two-alarm fire at the garage off Route 17K about 12:30 p.m.The garage is co-owned by Mary Briggs and her husband, Frank, who lived there. The two operated
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– There is no appetite in Washington to reduce trucking regulations, but there is great potential to make the regulations that trucking operates under more sensible. He said electronic logging devices (ELDs) are generating the data needed to fine-tune trucking regulations, including hours-of-service. To lobby for fewer regulations when fatal truck crashes are trending upwards
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Siphiwe Baleka was once a champion swimmer for Yale University, who just barely missed out on qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team. Being physically fit was always a part of his life. That was, however, until he became a truck driver. Within two months, he gained 15 lbs.—or 10% of his total body weight—and his
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Truck driver Gary Hartley know this first-hand.I don’t believe in talking on the phone while I’m driving, he said while on a break at a Sapp Bros. truck stop on a recent fall morning. He said hes been driving for more than 40 years Since his career started, Hartley said his record shows him as
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This 1911 Walker Electric Model 43, displayed in the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, was a milk delivery truck in downtown Chicago. The Walker brand, native to Chicago, was in production from 1906-1942, longer than any other electric truck in the U.S.WALCOTT, Iowa A few hundred miles away from North Dakota the story of this nations
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Evan Erlandson, the owner of E2 Trucking, underscored the impact cross-border trade has on his industry and individual business, which concentrates on hauling bulk freight between Manitoba and South Dakota. He said the primary reasons for choosing to run a north-south route into the U.S. was because of how well the roads are maintained south
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