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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA
* Indiana - FTR Shippers Conditions Index steadies in March
* Kansas - YRC Freight plans driver hiring spree
Overland Park,KS,USA -Fleet Owner -May 16, 2012: -- YRC Freight, the less-than-truckload subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, is planning to hire 200 over-the-road drivers in several cities across the U.S... The company is looking for drivers in the following areas: Maybrook, NY; Buffalo, NY; St. Paul, MN; Chicago, Il; Salt Lake City, UT; Akron, OH; Cleveland, OH; Cincinnati, OH; North Indianapolis, IN; Charlotte, NC; Jackson, MS: Albuquerque, NM; and Kansas City, MO... A unionized company, YRC Freight drivers are offered full paid health care benefits and vacation time. Drivers are paid union contract pay rates. All equipment is provided and maintained by the company and all fuel cost is paid for by the company. Many daily dispatches involve minimum time away from home. With the exception of team drivers, overnight stays for drivers are provided and paid for in hotel rooms, the company said...
* California - Motor Carriers Turn to Natural Gas as Fuel
Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -May 16, 2012: -- Truck manufacturers say falling natural gas prices, clean-truck mandates are prompting the switch... Motor carriers are adopting natural gas as one of the fuels of choice for their fleets because it makes financial sense, truck manufacturers told the Alternative Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach... Modern trucks powered by CNG and LNG produce a significant reduction in pollution compared to older vehicles that run on diesel fuel... The ports earlier this year reported that truck pollution in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor has been slashed by about 90 percent from the 2005 baseline year... Although natural-gas powered trucks represent a small percentage of the total national truck fleet because the trucks are more costly and the nation lacks an extensive natural gas fueling infrastructure, a convergence of factors indicates the use of natural gas will accelerate... The main reason why natural gas is becoming popular is the declining price of gas compared to diesel. Development of shale deposits in the U.S. has produced a glut of natural gas, sending the price down to about half of the price of diesel...
* Tennessee - FedEx delivering amazing fuel efficiency gains with electric delivery trucks
(Photo: FedEx fuel efficient trucks)
Memphis ,TENN,USA -Torque News, by David Herron -16 May 2012: -- FedEx Express has nearly reached its 2020 fuel efficiency goal in 2012, eight years early, through an aggressive program of buying all kinds of fuel efficient delivery vans, including a large fleet of all-electric step vans... FedEx Express is making rapid progress in fuel efficiency goals, announcing today that the FedEx Express fleet is 16.6 percent more efficient than it was in 2005. This means the company has nearly reached its 2020 goal of 20 percent efficiency improvement (20% by 2020, get it?), which wonders what the company will do as a second act... The efficiency gains came by converting twenty percent of the FedEx Express diesel vehicle to more efficient and cleaner emission models, ones that comply with 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency diesel emission standards...Labels: trucking industry news USA
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