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Fuel prices, News, State

Fuel tax relief, tax rebate efforts continue nationwide

Statehouse actions provide fuel tax relief. Pursuit elsewhere would make available tax relief in other forms.

Federal, News

Driver retention key to supply chain, Buttigieg says

If you want to improve truck driver retention, you have to improve the working conditions, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Opinion

How to speed up the supply chain? Louisiana and Georgia stick it to drivers

Louisiana and Georgia stick it to truckers, all in the name of a “driver shortage” –anything except require better pay and treatment for them.

News, OOIDA

Fill out the Owner-Operator Member Profile Survey from OOIDA

Some 20,000 OOIDA members have been asked to take an Owner-Operator Member Profile Survey. The info helps the fight for truckers’ rights.

Fuel prices, News

80 cents in one week!?

New England, Central Atlantic and the East Coast see startling jumps to average diesel prices, by over 80 cents, according to EIA report.

Business, Products & Services

Load posts increased 5% last week and capacity tightened, but spot rates slipped again

Load posts have risen the past two weeks on DAT MembersEdge, but rates aren’t showing a bounce. But the Mother’s Day effect is kicking in.

Federal, News

Speed limiter notice about to hit Federal Register

FMCSA is making moves toward mandate speed limiters on most commercial motor vehicles. The 30-day comment period starts May 4.

News, State, Truck Parking

Vail Pass Rest Area in Colorado closed through October 2023

The lone rest point for truckers for nearly 70 miles between Vail and Georgetown, Colo., Vail Pass Rest Area, is going to be out of order for a while.

Business

With two new terminals opened this spring, Saia reports higher revenue

New terminals last year and two this year so far have stoked revenue for Saia LTL Freight. The carrier plans to open more terminals this year.

Business

Hirschbach completes its purchase of John Christner Trucking

Iowa’s Hirschbach Motor Lines says it has completed buying Oklahoma’s John Christner Trucking, which had been facing a class-action lawsuit.