Seven fleets have agreed to have one of their trucks and drivers participate in Run on Less, a cross-country roadshow planned for later this year to showcase advancements in fuel efficiency.
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Quality Parts Center of Gary, Ind., has joined HDA Truck Pride's network of independent parts and service providers.
Quality Parts Center was founded in 1995 as a commercial vehicle body shop and has expanded its offerings to include parts inventory. Today, the company has a 6,000 square-foot parts store and a 15,000 square foot shop for servicing large truck and bus fleets.
The business is headed by Dave Roti, who has served the local area with a heavy-duty body shop since the mid-1990s, and Noah Osborn, who has years of local OE experience.
“We're delighted to add Quality Parts Center to our membership roster,” said Tom Tecklenburg, chief commercial officer of HDA Truck Pride. “By joining the HDA Truck Pride ranks, they will have access to our national brands, training, and telematics, along with regional and national fleet programs. We look forward to growing along with this fine operation.”
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XPO Logistics has announced that its 12,575 less-than-truckload drivers have surpassed one billion miles with no preventable accidents since the company began tracking the statistic.
XPO started tracking consecutive accident-free miles by drivers in April 2012 and by May of 2017, 890 XPO drivers had reached one to three million accident-free miles for a total that exceeded one billion miles.
“The billion-mile mark is a huge achievement for our company and a point of pride for our drivers,” said Tony Brooks, president of the LTL business for XPO Logistics. “It speaks to their impressive commitment to both safety and customer service, because an accident on the road is also a delay in delivery.”
XPO held a two-day celebration for the 19 exemplary drivers who have exceeded three million miles accident-free. The event was held at XPO's LTL headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich. The drivers were recognized in a special ceremony and attended a roundtable hosted by CEO Bradley Jacobs.
“I want to particularly commend the 890 XPO drivers who have achieved personal milestones of one to three million accident-free miles in the past five years,” said Brooks. “These drivers alone have contributed 1,102,000,000 miles to our tally.”
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">J.J. Keller & Associations has announced that its Mobile ELog solution has been self-certified and added to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's ELD registry.
The company's Mobile ELog solution for Android devices and the Compliance Tablet were both included on the FMCSA registry.
According to the ELD mandate, any electronic logging device placed into service as of Dec. 18, 2017 must be self-certified and registered with FMCSA. The self-certification process confirms that the ELD solution is able to accurately capture and store a driver's hours of service and make this information usable to enforcement personnel during roadside inspections and audits.
J.J. Keller's Encompass Fleet Management System with ELogs offers over-the-air updates to ensure compliance with regulatory changes. The system is compatible with all vehicle classes and many smart devices and includes multiple hours of service rule sets. J.J. Keller offers customers options from only ELogs to full performance management.
“The J. J. Keller ELog System delivers a compliant solution that meets FMCSA's technical requirements while offering the operational flexibility to help carriers maximize driver hours in compliance with complex Hours of Service regulations,” said Rustin Keller, executive vice president and chief operating officer for J. J. Keller & Associates. “We are particularly excited that we are able to self-certify our existing hardware and thrilled to tell customers that no hardware upgrade is necessary to meet the ELD mandate.”
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...Read the rest of this storyWith the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate requiring commercial drivers to digitally manage their time behind the wheel (Hours of Service or HOS) just six short months away, the launch of LogBook for iOS by Fleetmatics, a Verizon company, puts HOS management in the palms of drivers' hands.
Fleetmatics LogBook manages drivers' HOS by combining critical data from the vehicle with status updates made in the mobile application by the driver. Drivers simply log into the mobile app and start driving while their HOS are logged automatically. Dispatchers and back-office teams also benefit from real-time HOS status, violation alerts, Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports (DVIR) and more through Fleetmatics' web-based interface.
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the ELD mandate applies to most drivers who are currently required to maintain records of duty status (RODS). The ELD rule is being implemented to allow for a safer, easier and faster way of accurately tracking and managing RODS data. Any commercial motor vehicle carrier or driver subject to the ELD rule must be electronically recording hours of service by the December 18, 2017, deadline.
“The ELD mandate is quickly approaching and drivers need a compliance solution that is simple to implement,” said Todd Ewing, director of product management at Fleetmatics. “We manage the hardware installation and connection, allowing drivers to log in and see their real-time HOS status information and alerts, making compliance easier than ever.”
Fleetmatics LogBook provides violations alerts - warning or notification of occurrence, access to timer icons, automatic driving status updates, vehicle info and three different views of the status log which include the mandatory DOT information. Feedback and support are also available through the application's interface.
Fleetmatics Logbook is compliant with current Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulation 395.15, and has also been designed to update ...Read the rest of this story
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Average national spot truckload rates remained at two year highs for the week ending June 17th as the number of posted loads dipped 1% and truck posts gained 8%, according to DAT Solutions and its network of load boards.
Load-to-truck ratios retreated but remain at a three-year high with both reefers and flatbeds down 10%, at 9.1 loads per truck and 44.5 loads per truck, respectively. The van load-to-truck ratio fell 9% to 5.2 to 1.
This happened as on-highway diesel prices continued to slide and fell another 3 cents to a national average of $2.49 per gallon.
The number of posted van loads declined 1% while truck posts increased 9% last week. The national average van rate held steady at $1.79 per mile after adding 11 cents from May 27 to June 10.
DAT said two van markets to watch are Los Angeles and Houston. In Los Angeles van freight climbed more than 10% over the last month and the average rate there added 2 cents per mile last week, hitting $2.30 per mile.
Average outbound rates from Houston rebounded last week, up 6 cents to an average of $1.87 per mile. Houston-New Orleans rose 22 cents to an average of $2.65 per mile while Houston-Oklahoma City hit a new high at $2.30 per mile.
Elsewhere, average outbound rates fell on 40 of the top 100 van lanes.
Reefer load posts dipped 2% while truck posts jumped 8% last week. The national average reefer rate was unchanged at $2.11 per mile, the highest average in nearly two years. On the top 72 reefer lanes, only 27 had higher rates.
Two reefer markets to watch are:
Denver, at $1.30 per mile. The Mile High city had the lowest average outbound reefer rate in the country, but inbound rates on several lanes were up. Los Angeles-Denver rose 37 cents ...Read the rest of this story
