All Entries in the "TRANSPORTATION" Category
Hair Follicle Drug Testing for Trucking Industry
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There has been a debate going on among trucking companies for several years over whether hair follicle drug testing should be adapted industry wide instead of the usual urine testing. Some companies such as Schneider and CREngland have adapted hair follicle testing as pre-employment and random testing [...]
VIP’s (Very Important Pandas) Arrive in Paris on the FedEx Panda Express
PARIS – / N2N / – FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, safely delivered two three-year-old giant pandas from Chengdu, China, to Paris, France. The pandas, Huan Huan and Yuan Zi, arrived on a specially-chartered Boeing 777F flight known as the “FedEx Panda Express” and [...]
Are Transportation Companies Notorious for Cheating One Another?
- / N2N / – I have an acquaintance who owns a small, non-asset third party logistics (3PL) company. He is constantly complaining to me about how cutthroat the transportation business is and how his customers and vendors are always cheating him out of money. He spends a great deal of time trying to collect [...]
Much Has Changed For Women Truckers, But Not Everything
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There is a lot of talk these days about how to make women more comfortable about entering male dominated fields. Leveling the playing fields so that any job is available to any gender in today’s economy makes a lot of sense; but how does one make anyone [...]
Happy 4th Anniversary Women In Trucking Association!
- / N2N / – May of 2007, Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) with a dream of making the industry better for women and all drivers. After four years, WIT and Ellen Voie have come a long way. With over 1600 members comprised of both drivers, carriers and others in the [...]
UPS Sends Volunteers and Money to Aid Tornado Victims
- / N2N / – UPS (NYSE: UPS) has activated its newly-created Logistics Action Teams (LAT) to support the American Red Cross’s relief efforts for victims of the recent tornadoes in the southeastern United States. Additionally, the company pledged an additional $100,000 to its original $500,000 commitment to the American Red Cross and made a [...]
USA Submits to Blackmail
by Sandy Long – / N2N / – It is amazing that the United States of America bows down to economic pressures from a third world country to allow hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign trucks and their drivers into the country to take freight out of US driver’s trailers. This after the American people, [...]
DOE Seeks Proposals for Clean Transportation Projects
- / N2N / – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Clean Cities program and the U.S. Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS) are accepting proposals for transportation-related projects that use renewable and alternative fuels, electric drive and advanced vehicles, and fuel-saving initiatives that reduce petroleum use and benefit air quality. Projects implemented through [...]
Supercomputer Used to Design More Fuel Efficient Big Rigs
Washington, DC – / N2N / – BMI Corporation, a company in South Carolina, in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has successfully developed a technology that will make semi trucks more fuel efficient with the potential to save millions of gallons of fuel. Utilizing the nation’s most powerful computer, [...]
Women Truck Drivers Struggle to Gain Better Treatment
- / N2N / – In the latest issue of Landline Magazine is a letter to the editor from a friend of mine. In it he talks about how women are still treated in the industry at truck stops, shippers and receivers and among other places we all have to do business at or with. [...]
US – China Work Together to Prevent Nuclear Smuggling
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China that paves the way for the establishment of a radiation detection training center in Qinhuangdao, China. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman and Vice Minister SUN Yibiao of the General Administration [...]
Top 8 Ways for Walking Safely at Truck Stops
by Sandy Long – / N2N / – Once again we hear that a trucker has been hit and killed while walking in a truck stop; this time it was a double tragedy as two truckers were killed four days apart at the Pilot Travel Center at exit 4 on Interstate 81 near White Pine, [...]
CBP Seizes 4.4 Million Counterfeit Marlboro Cigarettes at Seaport
Los Angeles – / N2N / - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) import specialists and officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport complex intercepted and seized a shipment of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes arriving from China with an estimated manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $1.1 million. As an attempt to mislead CBP and circumvent U.S. [...]
