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Mar 27, 2017

A TRIBUTE TO TRUCKERS * USA: Trucks continue to be everywhere on our roads and highways

* Oregon - The drivers of those big rigs want to arrive safely, just like you do
--- Here’s an observation after a recent 2,700-mile trip down through California and Arizona with a side excursion into Nevada, and then back to Oregon... Trucks continue to be everywhere on our roads and highways... So this is a tribute to those drivers and the big rigs they steer over many miles. Depending on the terrain, it’s not unusual to see eight to 10 trucks moving along at 60 to 65 mph out in front of your own vehicle and just as many in the rear-view mirror... The decades-old saying of “If you bought it, a truck probably brought it” continues to be absolutely true... The American Trucking Association calls the industry the “lifeblood of the U.S. economy.” That association reports that more than 70 percent of the freight tonnage moved in the U.S. goes on trucks. To move close to 11 billion tons of freight annually takes about 3.4 million heavy-duty trucks and 3.5 million drivers... 

... The conditions drivers face can range from rough, steep, tight-cornered roads in the woods for log trucks to fast, busy freeways to bumper-to-bumper city traffic for long-haul trucks. Of course, the weather can be a factor, whether it is snow and ice making roadways slick or hot temperatures heating up equipment... The drivers deal with these conditions many months of the year to bring everything from ice cream bars and pretzels to grocery store shelves to logs to sawmills... Now, with the billions of miles trucks and their drivers roll over annually come accidents. Whether operator error or mechanical problems, accidents do happen. The U.S. Department of Transportation has reported that 60-some percent of all fatal collisions involving automobiles and large trucks were caused by the automobile operator rather than by the truck driver... So in order to arrive safely at your destination, and for the products carried by trucks to also arrive in one piece, have some extra patience while sharing the roads and highways with trucks. The drivers of those big rigs want to arrive safely, just like you do... 
 Roseburg, OR, USA - The News Review, by Craig Reed - Mar 24, 2017

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Sep 3, 2016

PROFESSIONAL TRUCKERS * USA: Think they as technology-enabled supply chain ones

* New York - Truck Driver Shortage is a Shortage Of Imagination

--- “Truck driver shortage” and you’ll find an endless string of articles from various local newspapers lamenting the lack of people willing to carry the load in this essential link of the supply chain. In the U.S., the shortfall is estimated at around 50,000 drivers, and age distribution of the 850,000 currently on the road suggests it will get significantly worse in the next five to ten years... The problem is not new. But the root of the problem may be that too many supply chain executives still see trucking as an undifferentiated commodity bought almost exclusively on the basis of cost... Over time, driver pay has closely mirrored inflation, with 2015 mean annual earnings of $43,410 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is not bad compared to average earnings for college graduates ($45,400) and it’s well above those who’ve only completed high school ($25,900)... The highest customer touch jobs in trucking may be in the parcel business, where earnings at UPS, for example, often exceed $70,000 per year... The same ATA data source that flags a barely breakeven labor market among long-haul full truckload carriers says the exact opposite for less-than-truckload (LTL) fleets. Turnover in the first quarter of 2016 for LTL fleets was only 8%. Something is obviously much better about these jobs... Long-haul driving is different. Most of the time and therefore money is spent out on highways alone... Thinking of truck drivers as technology-enabled supply chain professionals could make for a steadily improving customer experience. It also might justify significantly higher pay and better jobs... 
(Photo)  --   NY, USA - FORBES, by Kevin O'Marah - 1 Sept 2016

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May 14, 2015

REPORT: Who are the safest drivers on Ontario's roads ? ... The PROFESSIONAL TRUCKERS of * Canada

* Ontario - MTO report says trucks and truck drivers are safest


-- The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) released the latest edition (2012) of the Ontario Road Safety Annual Report (ORSAR) Monday, and once again it shows that truck drivers are the safest drivers – and trucks are the safest vehicles... The ORSAR, which contains the results for 2012, states that large trucks (including straight trucks which require a Class D driver’s licence) as well as tractor-trailers (which require a Class A driver’s licence), represented just 4.5 per cent of the total number of vehicles involved in all collisions in Ontario. Tractors and tractor-trailers represented only 2.4 per cent of the total number of vehicles involved in all collisions that year... There were 98 large trucks involved in fatal collisions in 2012 of a total population of 273,765. Of the trucks that require a Class A driver’s licence (tractor-trailers) to operate, there were only 61 – or .02 per cent of the total registered large truck population – involved in fatal collisions. In total, there were 194,746, registered trucks requiring a Class A licence. This number represents 17.6 per cent of all fatalities... The report also confirms what has been the case for years – that trucks and truck drivers are not usually the cause of the fatal collisions they are involved in... Of the 98 large trucks involved in fatal crashes, not one had an apparent defect that may have contributed to the crash... In comparison to other drivers, large truck drivers involved in fatal collisions are more likely to be “driving properly.” In terms of the number of fatal collisions, the driver of the large truck was driving properly 68 per cent of the time versus 39 per cent for the other driver in the same fatal collisions... In terms of the number of persons killed in collisions with large trucks in 2012, the truck driver was determined to have been driving properly in 79 per cent of the fatalities – the highest level in the past five years and 15.2 percentage points better than in 2008... In addition, truck drivers are far less likely to have been drinking or impaired by alcohol or drugs – 2 per cent compared to 17 per cent for other drivers involved in the same crashes. In 2012, there was only one recorded collision involving a commercial vehicle where alcohol was involved... In terms of the longer-term perspective, OTA compiled data from the ORSAR reports going back to 1993 and found that despite a 79 per cent increase in the number of large trucks registered in Ontario, the number of large truck fatalities decreased from 202 in 1993 to 100 in 2012 – a reduction of 50 per cent... “Highway safety is an ever-evolving thing,” said Mississauga’s David Bradley, president of the Ontario Trucking Association... In recent years the association has championed the introduction of legislation to mandate the activation of speed limiters on all heavy trucks; a universal mandate to replace paper log books used in the enforcement of truck driver hours of service regulations with an electronic logging device; a manufacturing standard that would make electronic stability control part of new truck purchase packages; and mandatory entry level training for truck drivers... 
(Photo - Heavy Trucks in Mississauga, ONT, CAN: Volvo, Freightliner, International and Kenworth dealership)  --  Toronto, ONT, CAN - The Mississauga News - May 12, 2015

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Jul 3, 2014

TRUCKERS SKILLED OCCUPATION * Canada

* Ontario - Truck driving should be considered a skilled occupation, says CTA’s Bradley 

Toronto,ONT,USA -The Mississauga News, by Rick Drennan -Jun 30, 2014: -- Truck driving is a skilled occupation that should not be lumped in with burger flippers and other low wage/low skill jobs in order for the industry’s jobs strategy to work... That’s the over-riding comment from the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) in the wake of changes to the controversial Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) announced recently by federal employment minister Jason Kenney... Bradley says the industry does not expect government to solve the driver shortage. He points to the efforts of CTA’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Driver Shortage ( www.drivershortage.ca), which is working hard to address the industry’s recruitment and retention challenges...

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Feb 14, 2014

NEWS for TRUCKERS * USA: Drivers today are under scrutiny as never before.

* New York - Is New Truck-Monitoring Technology for safety -- or spying on drivers?

(Photo credit: Wikipedia - A Kenworth truck near Sears Boyle Heights) 
NY,USA -Forbes, by Robert Bowman -11 Feb 2014: -- Truck drivers might not like the intrusive systems that monitor their every move, but the technology promotes safety on the roads... That’s the view of Sandy Hodes, senior vice president of Ryder System Inc. His company is a leading provider of trucks for rent and lease, along with logistics-support services and fleet-management systems... Drivers today are under scrutiny as never before. Trucks have long been equipped with systems for locating vehicles and controlling speed, but the latest generation of monitoring devices are much more far-reaching in scope. A combination of satellite-based tracking and cellular technology allows fleet managers to remotely view what drivers are doing... Information on shipment status used to be limited to a handful of transactions — pickup, delivery, and any periodic reports that the driver might be required to make en route. Today, says Hodes, monitoring can be conducted on a minute-by-minute basis... Managers can pull up electronic “breadcrumbs” that record a driver’s speed, braking and cornering techniques — not to mention any unauthorized stops. There are few, if any, “black holes” in the movement of commercial trucks today... Safety, of course, is a major concern of carriers. Research published last year in the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Prevention found that commercial trucks account for 8% of U.S. highway traffic, yet are involved in 11% of fatal crashes. In all, the study said, trucks are responsible for 4,500 deaths year in the U.S. alone. A 1% increase in truck volume on the highway results in a disproportionately higher rise in the probability of a severe crash...

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Aug 14, 2012

PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS * Europe

* Italia - Regulates transport by 3.5 t

Rome,Italy -Traffic Media/Tranzit (Romania) -9 August 2012: -- Rules governing access to the profession longer stuck a piece, and that is to demonstrate professional competence to perform the work of transport vehicles weighing over 1.5 tonnes but not exceeding 3.5 t in Italy. The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, laid the foundation for standards of conduct preliminary training courses to obtain certificate proving the ability to support the transport of goods... Preliminary training lasts 74 hours. The students must be held over a period not exceeding four months, a maximum of six hours per day, four consecutive hours with a group of 25 participants... At the end of the course is a certificate of participation and to obtain his presence at courses must be 90%...

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Apr 19, 2010

Role * USA - The transportation professional it's changing

Cincinnati,OH,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Apr 19, 2010: -- Despite the recession-driven drawdown in freight capacity, especially among for-hire and private carriers alike, the need for experienced transportation professionals has never been greater, according to one industry veteran, and that need will only expand in the future... Said Larry Ahlers, vp-transportation for global building products company Oldcastle Architecture during the keynote speech here at the National Private Truck Council’s annual : Cost has been the driving factor throughout much of the freight world for a long time now, obscuring many other pieces of the transportation puzzle that are going to become far more critical... Take the impending implementation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) program in November this year, Ahlers said, “It’s absolutely critical to run safely, for private fleets and contracted carriers alike, as the liability if you do not is huge. If you don’t think the ramifications of using unsafe carriers won’t come back on you once CSA 2010 is in place, you are sadly mistaken.”... Capacity is another growing issue...

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