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Apr 4, 2016

TRUCKINGs' UNFAIR COMPETITION * France: And a lack of effective controls

* Paris - FNTR, TLF and UNOSTRA, react to Alain Vidal expressions about cabotage


-- In an interview with L’Officiel des Transporteurs, March 22, 2016, Alain Vidal expressed his opposition to any reform of cabotage rules...  A statement that caused an uproar in the ranks of three (FNTR -in english, National Federation of Road Transport-, TLF -Fédération des entreprises de Transport et Logistique de France-, UNOSTRA -Union Nationale des Organisations Syndicales des Transporteurs Routiers Automobiles-) of the four professional federations... FNTR, TLF and UNOSTRA have, by way of press release published on 29 March expressed their "amazement" before the words of Alain Vidal, Secretary of State for Transport... FNTR has made ​​one of his warhorses the reform of the cabotage rules. It's, she says, a must, a prerequisite for all measures likely to tackle head-related harm unfair competition by countries of Eastern Europe... While at the UR, as well as within the Professional Alliance of road transport, we rise against the illegal cabotage (and lack of effectiveness of controls), the FNTR is estimated that the trial problem is the current mode of operation of cabotage... They call for a reform of the cabotage rules to reduce both the legal duration (3 days instead of 5) and the number of operations. "Remove irregular cabotage, which represents only a small share of cabotage in France, will not remove the problem," can be read as the site of the FNTR, which also advocates a European regulations for less 3.5 t. ... "Today, the first cabotage contributes to unbalanced competition in Europe, to the extent that it allows companies working with social and tax costs lower, to work directly on the territories where they clearly proving to be more competitive" ... FNTR, and TLF and UNOSTRA with her, so waiting for the public authorities to support this claim to Brussels... But, Alain Vidal surprised everyone by declaring his opposition to any reform of cabotage rules... 
(Photo: A truck drives past a sign near Bayonne, France)   --  Paris, France - WK Transport et Logistique - 29 March 2016

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Dec 5, 2015

TRUCKING TROUBLES * Russia: Has Putin met his match In Russia's truck drivers?

* Russia’s long-haul truck drivers have disrupted the country’s federal highways



... For more than two weeks to protest a new road tax (platon in Russian) collected (with a 20% commission) by the Putin-associated Rotenberg oligarchs. The protesters threatened a full blockade of Moscow today unless their demands for a radical restructuring of the government are met. Russia’s riot and traffic police have not been able to halt the convoys, and the Russian government has refused good-faith talks. Putin’s propaganda machine is threatened with its own version of a nationwide Maidan. And the truck drivers intend to paralyze the traffic of the nation’s capital. Talks failed when Russia’s transport minister staged a show meeting with counterfeit truckers before government media. Despite massive security efforts, 200 trucks have arrived in Moscow. Ominously for the Kremlin, private car drivers are joining the protest... Vladimir Putin came into office with promises of growth and prosperity. That the ailing Russian economy can no longer deliver on these pledges has weakened the Kremlin, but the liberal opposition isn’t strong enough to end Putin’s kleptocracy. Instead, any fatal blow must come from Putin’s core supporters–workers (including truckers) and pensioners–reacting to unpaid wages, declining living standards and to the billions stolen by Putin’s inner circle at their expense... 
 (Photo from Associated Press, by DMITRY ROGULIN: Hundreds of Russian truck drivers head to Moscow for protest) --  St. Petersburg, Russia - Fortune (USA), by Paul Roderick Gregory - Nov 30, 2015

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Jan 13, 2015

BORDER's TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA/Mexico

* DC - FMCSA to open border to long-haul trucking from Mexico 


(Photo: Truck of Mexican company Olympics crosses Puente Internacional Comercio Mundial while approaching border crossing into U.S.)
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by Jami Jones -9 Jan 2015: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will soon be accepting applications from Mexico-based trucking companies to operate long-haul in the United States – in spite of a recent Department of Transportation Inspector General report stating the pilot program had failed to prove that any and all Mexico-based trucks could safely operate long-haul in the U.S.A. ... The agency reported to Congress that the performance of the pilot program participants – and 351 enterprise motor carriers, which are 55 percent Mexico-owned, U.S.A. based companies that were not of the pilot program – justifies no changes to the regulations... That allows for the agency to continue accepting applications from Mexico-based motor carriers. The regulations still stipulate they will have to complete a pre-authority safety audit, and the public will have the opportunity to review the applications and comment... At the conclusion of the cross-border pilot program on Oct. 10, 2014, only 15 motor carriers participated in the program. FMCSA estimated it needed 46 motor carriers to produce a statistically valid sample. Only two of the 15 participating motor carriers generated any sort of traffic at the border, and the lion’s share of that traffic remained in the border zone...

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May 8, 2009

Drivers Truckfest ? * UK - They fight to keep on trucking

It's billed as the biggest get-together in the lorry-driving calendar, but this year's Truckfest in Peterborough, in the English Midlands, was a show with a serious side



Peterboroug,UK -BBC News, by Mark Worthington -7 May 2009: -- ... As the main arena reverberated to the sound of monster trucks and motorbikes, away from the action, hundreds of lorry drivers seized a rare chance to meet up and talk... There are more than 400,000 lorries on Britain's roads. The haulage industry touches every corner of the country, and it's an industry under a cloud... As truckers gathered around sizzling barbecues, the conversation was all about unemployment and pay cuts... Almost every driver has a story to tell. For increasing numbers, it's about how they lost their jobs and how they have managed since... According to the Office for National Statistics, 15,255 HGV drivers claimed jobseekers allowance in March 2009, up from just 3,280 the previous year... It means there are now almost five times as many drivers out of work, and the statistics show they are losing their jobs more quickly than almost every other sector... As hauliers struggle to make ends meet, the government is raising fuel duty. In his budget, Alistair Darling announced a rise of 2p per litre from September, then by 1p a litre above inflation each April for the next four years... The Road Haulage Association says this has come at a time when the haulage industry is facing its biggest challenge yet, and that its survival is vital to bringing the country out of recession...

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Feb 27, 2009

Haulage Industry in Trouble * Latvia - Hauliers claim

Latvian hauliers are calling on the Government to provide the aid for the industry

Riga,Latvia -HGV Ireland -25 Feb 2009: -- In a letter to Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis last week, hauliers drew attention to the fact that international freight haulage sector, represented by over 3,000 companies, which operate nearly 12,000 trucks and employ around 20,000 workers, is facing difficult times... The global economic crisis has had an impact also on foreign markets, the demand for the trucking companies' services are decreasing and so are these companies' incomes, the hauliers claim. Road hauliers are struggling to settle their payments with banks, leasing companies, fuel and services providers and many are close to going bankrupt... According to the truckers, the freight turnover volume in January decreased at least by 50%. Freight carriers are forced to limit their activities, to make drivers redundant or to ask them to take unpaid vacations for indeterminate period of time, the hauliers claim...

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Feb 3, 2009

TRUCKING INDUSTRY TROUBLES * USA - Economic Punches Keep Coming

Columbus,Ohio,USA -10 TV News, by Karina Nova -February 2, 2009: -- The state's trucking industry has taken a hit during the economic recession, leaving thousands without jobs and company executives searching for ways to keep their businesses alive... In Ohio, about 360,000 people are employed by the trucking industry... In 2008, about 18,000 people in the Ohio trucking industry lost their jobs... Richard Durst, chief executive office of Arctic Express, said the problem is simple: companies like his are making fewer deliveries... When companies like Arctic Express face a decline in shipping orders, many of their tractor-trailers sit parked and empty. That creates yet another problem... Durst added that selling rigs is one way his company is trying to keep from initiating layoffs...


* USA - Survival of the quickest

Newark,New Jersey,USA -Pacific Shipper, by JOHN GALLAGHER -February 2, 2009: -- The fastest segment of the trucking industry is working even faster as the economy slows down and shippers seek less costly alternatives to move their freight... It’s suddenly OK to move heavy freight that shippers once considered “just-in-time” or “next-day” in slower LTL and even truckload lanes — at lower rates. That has expedited carriers moving quickly to find other ways to make money... Mike Steele, president and chief executive of Circumference America, an independent contractor for Sunteck Transport Group, began offering expedited trucking since the day he started his own company in 2006. But the service has contributed little to his bottom line... The market for fast freight — whether its hauled by LTL or truckload carriers, specialized fleets or expedited package and parcel companies — will likely become more challenging as demand for transportation in general continues to decline...

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Jan 24, 2009

* USA - TRUCKER YRC OFFERS TO AVOID BRANKRUPTCY

YRC offers fee to modify loan agreement

New York,NY,USA -Reuters, by Jacqueline Poh & Dena Aubin -Jan 23, 2009: -- YRC Worldwide Inc., North America's largest truck company, is offering a 75 basis point fee to lenders to relax key financial covenants on its $962 million loan, banking sources told Reuters Loan Pricing Corp on Friday... The borrower had asked for a waiver on Jan. 12, giving a 50 basis point fee, a rare offer for waiver requests, according to RLPC... YRC is asking for a waiver on some of its financial covenants that it has temporarily defaulted on and to extend its repayment of some loans... The possibility of amendments to relax financial covenants was one of the discussion topics, but sources said it appears there will be no major changes except for the definition of those covenants... YRC could be forced into bankruptcy if it fails to reach an agreement with lenders, misses those targets and defaults on its loans, Fitch Ratings warned earlier this month when it downgraded the company's ratings... YRC currently has over $250 million of cash and expects to generate additional cash from sale and leaseback transactions and from sales of excess facilities, while reducing its 2009 equipment purchases by integrating its national companies... Also previously announced, the company is integrating the operations and local sales teams of its two largest brands, Yellow Transportation and Roadway... (Photo USA Today: Keith Graham, a truck driver for a unit of America's biggest trucking firm, YRC Worldwide, loads a truck in Holland, Michigan September, 20, 2007. YRC says its business has been hurt by slowing economic growth, especially in the upper midwest because of the declining U.S. auto industry. Picture taken September 20, 2007.)

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Jul 4, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY TROUBLES * Canada - Facing uncertain future

In a few short years, Ontario's trucking industry has gone from having driver shortages to staving off bankruptcy

North Bay,Ontario,Canada -The North Bay Nugget, by ANTONELLA ARTUSO & IAN ROBERTSON -3 July 2008: -- ... Doug Switzer, the Ontario Trucking Association's manager of government relations, said... Adding up to 15 of the association's 1,000 members have gone belly up... "It's not a huge percentage but some of the bigger ones (trucking companies) -- we're sort of keeping our fingers crossed that they're still going to be here a year from now," he said... The industry has been hurt by Ontario's declining manufacturing sector, Switzer said. Yearly cross-border truck trips are down by 10 per cent or one million trips compared to just three or four years ago... In 2004, trucking experts predicted the province would face huge shortages in drivers over the next six years... Switzer said some firms are trimming their rosters through attrition, though there are still demands in some quarters for qualified drivers...

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