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Cop hunt for Oakville truck hijackers

OAKVILLE, ON--The Halton Regional Police are searching for three suspects after a truck robbery in Oakville on Tuesday. According to a police statement, at approximately 5:30 p.m., a lone male employee of a business on Cornwall Road was preparing a load of automotive parts to be transported to the Ford plant a short distance away on Canadian Road. Police said a Kia Sedona minivan approached the truck driver and one suspect exited the vehicle demanding the driver enter the second trailer of his rig under threat of a firearm. The firearm was not witnessed but the driver complied ...Read the rest of this story
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11 Jan by

Cops hunt for Oakville truck hijackers

OAKVILLE, ON--The Halton Regional Police are searching for three suspects after a truck robbery in Oakville on Tuesday. According to a police statement, at approximately 5:30 p.m., a lone male employee of a business on Cornwall Road was preparing a load of automotive parts to be transported to the Ford plant a short distance away on Canadian Road. Police said a Kia Sedona minivan approached the truck driver and one suspect exited the vehicle demanding the driver enter the second trailer of his rig under threat of a firearm. The firearm was not witnessed but the driver complied ...Read the rest of this story
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11 Jan by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Spot Truckload Freight Market Sees Weekly, Monthly Gains

Unseasonably high freight volumes combined with higher fuel prices and rough winter weather pushed spot truckload rates upward to start 2017, according to DAT Solutions and its network of load boards, while a separate measure showed the market improved for the sixth straight month in December.

The total number of posted loads increased 17% while available capacity was up 9.5% during the week ending Jan. 7 compared to the previous week. National average rates for reefers increased 5 cents to an unseasonably high $2.03 per mile while van added 4 cents for $1.77 per mile. In contrast, the average flatbed rate fell 3 cents to $1.92 per mile.

All rates include fuel surcharges and this most recent activity happed as national average price of on-highway diesel gained a penny to $2.60 per gallon.

This tighter capacity pushed van and flatbed load-to-truck ratios higher, while refrigerated freight dipped. The van load-to-truck ratio increased 10% to 4.9 loads per truck while flatbeds jumped 7% to 28.6 loads per truck. Reefers fell 4% to 10.7 loads per truck.

Van activity picked up gradually in the week following the holidays. Van load posts were up 20% compared to the previous week and truck posts increased 9%. But rates fell sharply in many key markets over the past week especially in the Midwest and West including:

Los Angeles, $2.08 per mile, down 8 centsChicago, $2.12 per mile, down 11 centsHouston, $1.57 per mile, down 2 centsAtlanta, $1.96 per mile, down 3 centsPhiladelphia, $1.75 mile, down 3 cents

Demand for reefer trucks slipped compared to the boom week between Christmas and New Year's but the load-to-truck ratio remained unseasonably high. Spot market load posts increased 3% but truck posts rose 7%. According to DAT, freight volume kept climbing in Nogales, Arizona with Mexican produce crossing the border, and load counts also started ...Read the rest of this story

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Long-time OTA employee Jackie Dobrowolski leaving the association

TORONTO-- After 29 years as the office manager and executive assistant to Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) and Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) Chief Executive Officer David Bradley, Jackie Dobrowolski – or Jack/JD as she is known to so many – has announced she is leaving the association to pursue other interests. “Jackie has been a wonderful assistant and a major asset to OTA for almost three decades. She has been and always will be part of the family. She will be greatly missed, but I – as well as a great many others--wish her nothing but the best for the future,” said Bradley, who will be retiring at the end of this year. ...Read the rest of this story
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11 Jan by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Kapsch named toll provider for I-77 project

Kapsch TrafficCom (Kapsch) announced I-77 Mobility Partners has awarded it a contract to be the toll system provider and system integrator for the Interstate 77 Express Lanes project in Charlotte, NC.

According to the company, the venture comprises the end-to-end design, installation, and ongoing maintenance of the project's field-level systems. The project represents North Carolina's first express lane and concession-led project, as well as one of the first toll facility construction projects in Charlotte.

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