Now’s the time to reinforce safe driving

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has set October 15-21 as the dates for this year's Operation Safe Driver Week. The annual event is a partnership between CVSA and the Federal Motor Carriers Association.

The goal of the effort is to “help improve the behavior of all drivers operating in an unsafe manner through educational and traffic enforcement strategies to address individual's exhibiting high-risk driving behaviors.”

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Webinar: Listening to the voice of the driver can ease the shortage

One way to address the growing shortage of truck drivers is to actually listen to what truck drivers want from the job they perform and that does not always center around pay, though wages make up a large proportion of their wants and needs.

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3 Things Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) Should Do in the Next 12 Months

More than halfway through its third calendar year as a public company, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) is on fire. The shares have pulled back some 4% from its all-time high late touched on July 27. InvestorPlace's Brett Kenwell believes now is not the time to abandon Alibaba stock despite its impressive gains so far in 2017. “Alibaba stock is now working with a huge tailwind,” wrote Kenwell July 28.

Deutsche Bank tumbles down private bank rankings

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) dropped out of the world's top 15 private banks in 2016, a year marked by negative headlines for Germany's biggest lender, rankings by wealth management researcher Scorpio Partnership showed on Monday. Private banking assets at Deutsche Bank fell 28 percent in dollar terms to $227 billion at the end of 2016, sending it tumbling five places to 16th in Scorpio's rankings of the 25 biggest private banks in the world.

British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson off work with pneumonia

British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who gained worldwide fame as presenter of the BBC motoring show "Top Gear", will be off work for "quite some time" after falling ill with pneumonia while on a family holiday. "I'll be out of action for quite some time apparently," Clarkson said on Sunday in a post on DriveTribe, a discussion website founded by Clarkson and co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May.

Kevin O'Leary to Bill Ackman: Tell me what you know about…

Kevin O'Leary, "Shark Tank" co-host, talks explains why he has respect for hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and is willing to listen to what he has to say. Hear out his ideas and let the market decide, say O'Leary.

Oil slides from nine-week highs as market looks to OPEC

Oil prices edged lower on Monday, sliding away from nine-week highs, as worries lingered over high production from OPEC and the United States. U.S. crude futures were down 55 cents, or 1.11 percent, at $49.03 per barrel, but up from the day's low of $48.78 a barrel. Doubts have since swirled around the effectiveness of the cuts, as OPEC output hit a 2017 high in July and its exports hit a record.