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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Five Arkansas Trucking Companies Make Top 100
ARK, USA -KARK 4 News -July 30, 2008: -- Five Arkansas trucking companies are among the largest 100 freight carriers in the United States according to the latest list compiled by Transport Topics, an industry trade newspaper... The list ranks companies by their 2007 gross revenue... UPS is the nation’s largest carrier, with consolidated revenues of $49.6 billion. FedEx Corporation, of which FedEx Freight in Harrison is one of the company’s nine operating units, is the nation’s second largest trucking firm on revenue of $37.9 billion. J. B. Hunt Transport Services in Lowell, Arkansas, is the 8th largest U.S. carrier, reporting $3.48 billion in revenues in 2007... Arkansas Best Corporation, holding company of ABF Freight System in Fort Smith, is the second largest trucking company in Arkansas, and the 15th largest in the United States... USA Truck, headquartered in Van Buren, is the third largest carrier in Arkansas and the 54th largest in the United States... P.A.M. Transportation Services, headquartered in Tontitown, is the 62nd largest U.S. trucking company... Maverick USA is headquartered in North Little Rock, and is the 73rd largest U.S. trucking company. The flatbed and specialized carrier is also the largest privately owned trucking company in Arkansas. Maverick reported $290 million in revenue in 2007, and employed 1,740 people... * Con-way Freight Sends a Record 68 Drivers to National Truck Driving Championships - Company's Highest Number of State Winners Ever Will Compete for National Titles
Ann Arbor,MICH,USA -MarketWatch -July 31, 2008: -- Con-way Freight will send more drivers than ever before to American Trucking Associations (ATA)-sponsored National Truck Driving Championships in August... This year, 983 U.S. Con-way Freight drivers participated in state qualifying competitions. A total of 68 of the company's drivers representing 34 U.S. states came in first place and will compete at the event set for Aug. 19-23 in Houston. Drivers are invited to Nationals after winning their equipment classes during state competitions... The national competition tests drivers on their skills and knowledge of safe driving practices through interviews, written examinations, equipment safety inspection testing and formal driving tests. Since the championships began, 11 Con-way Freight drivers have been named National Champion in their equipment classes, including Dale Duncan of Chula Vista, Calif., who won the National Grand Champion overall title in 2006. In 2007, two company drivers earned National Champion honors -- Duncan and Dennis Day of Georgia...
* Not a UCR host state, Oregon will fine truckers anyway
OR,USA -Land Line Magazine -July 30, 2008: -- Motor carriers, brokers, freight forwarders and leasing companies that have failed to register with the Unified Carrier Registration Program became subject to fines effective July 1. And even though the state of Oregon doesn’t participate in the new program – which replaced the old Single State Registration System – it will soon begin imposing a fine for UCR non-compliance... “The UCR (system) basically is a federal law. Everybody who operates interstate is required to pay this fee ... Oregon is not participating as a host state in collecting these fees. It would require us an additional burden to collect the fees ... so we have chosen not to do it,” Jo Schiffner of the Oregon Department of Transportation told... Fines for UCR non-compliance differ from state to state. Oregon’s fine will be $427...
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