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Survey finds drivers shortchanged by slow dock waiting game

PORTLAND, OR — Drivers have long been shortchanged and frustrated by shippers with slow dock operations, but a new U.S. survey has taken a closer look at the problem by detailing just how long drivers hurry up and wait. In the survey by DAT Solutions, both brokers and carriers defined detention as holding a driver and truck at the dock for more than two hours while loading or unloading. The survey found that nearly 63% of commercial truck drivers spend more than three hours at a shipper's dock waiting for their vehicle to be loaded and unloaded.
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15 Jul by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Air-Weigh Scale Can Improve Safety for Work Trucks

Air-Weigh has released the LoadMaxx Work Truck Scale, an onboard scale designed specifically for work trucks.

The onboard axle scale is designed to improve safety and make trucks more efficient. The LoadMaxx Work Truck Scale warns the driver when a vehicle's weight approaches its safety threshold, allowing operators to load trucks safely.

Overloading is a leading cause of crane and hoist accidents on work trucks, according to Air-Weight, saying that one vehicle overturns for every 10,000 hours of crane use and 80% of these incidents are related to excess weight.

Air-Weighs weighing technology reduces the threat of overloading without disrupting a fleet's efficiency and can eliminate overweight fines as well.

Air-Weigh is a provider of on-board weighing solutions, building scales for commercial and refuse vehicles.

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15 Jul by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Rate pressure to persist through year’s end

Manufacturing output, inventories stagnant, but regulatory challenges loom Truckers should expect six to nine more months of downward pressure on rates, a leading transportation analyst suggests, but shippers should be cautious about aggressively pursuing cost reductions as a regulatory squeeze on capacity could outweigh a stagnant economy by mid-2017.

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