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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - Teamsters to protest Chrysler's trucking plan
* Michigan - The Teamsters protest Chrysler Group LLC's decision to use more nonunion carhaulers
Auburn Hills,MICH,USA -Free Press, by GREG GARDNER -Oct. 17, 2009: -- The Teamsters union has launched a six-week campaign at dealerships throughout the country to protest Chrysler Group LLC's decision to use more nonunion carhaulers, which the union fears General Motors Co. also will do... The Teamsters represents about 5,000 carhaulers and warns that greater use of nonunion truckers could eliminate as many as 1,700 of those jobs throughout the United States... After seeking competitive bids, the company transferred about 25% of the $111-million transport business it does with the two firms annually to other companies... Mike Keegan, senior vice president for supply chain management, said Chrysler will continue to use Allied and Cassens, but spreading the business among more competitors is expected to save about $31 million over three years... Chrysler also expects the use of more trucking firms will reduce the delivery time from assembly plant to showroom by 23%, Keegan told... Some Teamsters contracts with GM are about to expire. A GM spokesman did not return a phone call Friday... (Photo from hankstruckpictures: Cassen's trucks)
* Wiscosin - Trucking firms flip on digital logbooks - New Schneider system will track miles and more
Green Bay, Wisconsin,USA -The Journal Sentinel, by Rick Romell -Oct. 17, 2009: -- Schneider National Inc. soon will begin tracking the work hours of its 13,270 drivers electronically, a significant move in what could turn into a more general shift away from the trucking industry's much-derided paper logbooks... That shift may come voluntarily if, as Schneider believes, the electronic system boosts efficiency and reduces accidents... It conceivably could come via government mandate - probably the longest shot - or through a subtle but potent regulatory change that pushes trucking firms to adopt the technology without an outright order to do so... In any event, many in the industry believe the days of paper logbooks, which safety advocates say are easily falsified and allow truckers to violate rules on how long they may drive, are numbered... The new computers include several advantages over Schneider's current system... Internet access will give drivers an electronic link to home and ready access to weather along their routes. Instead of looking at maps and written directions - a source of distraction and thus, potential trouble - they'll have spoken, turn-by-turn instructions to destinations. And the company will get more extensive data on "critical events" such as hard braking that should help it identify problem patterns... But a key capability is electronic logging... (Photo: A Qualcomm Inc. technician demonstrates a computer that Schneider National truck drivers will use to track hours.)* North Caroline - Stimulus dollars put road contractors to work
Raleigh,NC,USA -The News Observer, by BRUCE SICELOFF -18 Oct 2009: -- Kelvin Whitehurst bought a third dump truck and hired a third driver this summer, after he landed his biggest job yet in 10 years as a highway subcontractor... He took in $155,000 for three months of work lining up trucks to haul asphalt for a nighttime paving operation on the Interstate 440 Beltline. Whitehurst had a small piece of a $3.6 million project financed entirely with federal economic stimulus dollars... In a tough economic year, it was just the break he needed... Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama talked a lot about job creation in February when they approved the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a three-year program of $787 billion in spending and tax cuts that will send at least $8.6 billion to North Carolina. The money is flowing into programs from home weatherization and flu shots to schools and public works... Whitehurst did his part to spread the wealth. Even after he took on a third driver and picked up a repossessed truck for $65,000, he had more asphalt than he could handle... He rounded up about a dozen independent truckers for the Beltline job and wrote payroll checks for $33,368 in July and August... (Photo by Ted Richardson - Kelvin Whitehurst of Raleigh received a repaving contract on I-540 and is enlarging his trucking business. North Carolina will get $838.8 million over three years in federal stimulus money for transportation)Labels: trucking industry news USA
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