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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA: NAFTA's & Infrastructures & Funds for
* DC - NAFTA pilot ends; 13 Mexico carriers granted authority to continue operating in U.S.A.
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -14 Oct 2014: -- The Department of Transportation’s Pilot Program on the NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provision officially ended at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, but the border will remain open to the 13 Mexico-domiciled carriers that were granted authority to participate in the project... As of Oct. 5, the latest data available, the FMCSA had conducted 5,522 inspections... Collectively, Servicio de Transporte Internacional y Local and GCC Transportes accounted for 80.7 percent of the total inspections. A check of FMCSA data recently show that Servicio de Transporte Internacional y Local was crossing the border multiple times each day with the same trucks. The carrier crossed the border a total of 19,762 times as of Oct. 5, accounting for 70.9 percent of the total crossings... Sources said there were no fatalities or major accidents involving Mexico-domiciled trucks during the current pilot, or the previous pilot program that ended in 2009 when Congress jettisoned the project...
* Mississippi - Carroll County, bridges crumbling, state warns
* Utah - Bank reports big increase in loans for trucking equipment
Ogden,UT,USA -Truckinginfo -October 14, 2014: -- One trucking equipment finance company reports a big surge in lending through the first three quarters of the year... Transportation Alliance Bank said it provided $11.3 million in trucking equipment loans for 22 transportation companies during the third quarter of 2014. Based in different regions of the country, these companies represent a broad spectrum of trucking entities, including one-truck owner-operators and small and large fleets, according to company... In the first nine months of 2014 TAB Bank said has increased its trucking equipment lending by 56% compared to the same time in 2013... "... Trucking equipment sales are seeing very high numbers as trucking companies nationwide replace their equipment and upgrade their fleets,” said Jan Allen Ackley, Chief Lending Officer for TAB Bank...
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