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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA & Canada
* USA - FMCSA favors milestone insurance change for Canuck truckers
Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -9 July 2009: -- Canadian truckers could for the first time buy Canadian insurance to haul into the U.S., according to a recent proposal of rulemaking issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration... Presently, Canada-domiciled trucking carriers must maintain insurance policies issued by U.S. insurance companies either directly (and thereby maintain two separate polices) or through a "fronting agreement" where the risk is "reinsured" back to the Canadian provider by the American issuer... The latter option is the most common, but adds expense and administration costs to the 9,000 or so Canadian carriers that haul down south. American carriers operating in Canada, incidentally, don't face the same burdens... Now, thanks to lobbying by the Canadian Trucking Alliance and provincial associations, FMCSA has accepted a petition from the Canadian government and proposed an amendment, which would eliminate the need for Canadian insurance companies to link with a U.S. insurance company... (Picture from BigLorryBlog, by Terry White: "Wesley is a 9-year-old Border Collie and has been on the road for all of those years and has clocked up a few miles" - FROM ABOVE-)
* StarTrak Systems adds 18 new fleet customers
Scottsdale,AZ,USA -Refrigerated Transporter -Jul 8, 2009: -- Alanco Technologies Inc announced that its StarTrak Systems subsidiary, provider of wireless monitoring and two-way control systems for the refrigerated transport industry, added 18 new fleet customers that collectively operate more than 3,000 refrigerated trucks and trailers in the third quarter of 2009... More than 125 refrigerated transport customers now subscribe to StarTrak’s reefer monitoring and management services. Its five-year customer retention rate for subscription data services is virtually 100%...* ATA, state trucking groups provide VMRS products
Arlington,VA,USA -Refrigerated Transporter -Jul 9, 2009: -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and state trucking associations participating in ATA Business Solutions are now the exclusive providers of ATA’s Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) 2000 products... VMRS, developed by the ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), is the universal language of maintenance reporting—the vital link between the shop floor and management. It creates a single process to:• Document when, why, and how maintenance is performed on equipment.
• Improve equipment and parts inventory control.
• Identify system, component, and labor expenditures.
• Help control costs and create greater efficiency among various shop locations.
• Manage a wide variety of equipment, including trucks of all types, cars, buses, vans, and construction equipment.
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