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The 2016 National Truck Driving Championships winner, Charles White Photo: ATA

American Trucking Associations is set to welcome more than 420 of the trucking industry's top truck drivers to Orlando, Fla., for the 80th annual National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships.

The National Truck Driving Championships opens August 9 with competitors taking a walk through of the driving course and registering for the different events.

Participants in different vehicle classes will partake in three phases of competition: a written examination testing background knowledge of rules and procedures pertinent to the trucking industry, a vehicle inspection to test competitors' ability to detect vehicle malfunctions, and a driving skills test where competitors are graded on their ability to operate a truck through a series of obstacles.

“Safety and precision will be the focus of these impressive professional truck drivers during this week in Orlando as they compete for honors at the National Truck Driving Championships,” said Chris Spear, ATA president and CEO. “Truck drivers work their entire careers and practice for moments like this to showcase their safety skills and compete among friends.”

Over four days, 428 competitors from all 50 states, including 35 first-time participants, representing 97 companies will compete for honors in one of eight different classes for the distinction of being crowned National Truck Driving Championships Bendix Grand Champion.

The competition concludes on Aug. 12 with the announcement of the National Truck Driving Championships Bendix Grand Champion, along with the winners of each vehicle class and awards for the top performing state delegation, rookie of the year, and other recognitions.

“These championships are a great spectacle and I couldn't be more proud to interact with drivers from all corners of the country,” said Kevin Burch ATA Chairman, president of Jet Express. “The drivers take this event very seriously and practice and study ...Read the rest of this story

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Freight TSI modal data, January 2000-December 2016. Graphic: U.S. DOT

Newly released U.S. Transportation Department figures show all but one of the major freight modes have grown since the end of the Great Recession, with trucking posting the second-highest increase.

Trucking's growth of 37.8% was bested only by rail intermodal, which rose 50.6% from June 2009 through December 2016, as measured by the department's freight Transportation Service Index. The index measures month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation in tons and ton-miles, which are combined into one index.

The seasonally adjusted index showed trucking's growth was followed by the modes of pipeline at 29.6%, water­borne at 23.2%, and air freight at 21.7%. During this period the overall freight TSI rose 29.7%.

The sole exception was rail carloads, which declined 0.8%. The drop in rail carload shipments took place at the same time as a decline in coal shipments. Total coal shipped by major railroads peaked in 2008 at 878.6 million tons before declining to 787.6 million tons in 2009, and continued to fall to 638.1 million tons in 2015.

All freight transportation modes declined during the recession, and the freight TSI fell 16.3% from January 2008 to its low point in April 2009. The biggest decline was in the air freight index, 26.5%, followed by rail carloads, 23%; waterborne, 18.6%; rail intermodal, 18.1%; trucking, 14.5%; and pipeline, 4.7%.

According to the department, the freight TSI tends to turn in advance of slowdowns and accelerations in economic growth. The most recent data show two economic accelerations following the recession; the first from June 2009 to December 2012 and the second from July 2013 to December 2014. The freight TSI led both accelerations.

While the newly identified turns in the freight TSI continue to lead growth cycles, the relationship between the freight TSI and growth cycles ...Read the rest of this story

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