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Third Annual Infrastructure Week Kicks Off

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Infrastructure Week is kicking off this week, May 15 – 19, highlighting infrastructure as a key policy issue nationwide. Infrastructure Week is an industry-wide image and education movement, featuring a series of events, education, and advocacy efforts.

This year's theme is #TimeToBuild, and the goal is to bring together American businesses, workers, elected leaders and everyday citizens around a common goal toward improving the nation's infrastructure, according to organizers.

Infrastructure Week was founded and is led by a bipartisan steering committee that includes business groups, labor unions and think tanks working to improve America's infrastructure. The steering committee and more than 150 affiliates at the national, state, and local levels, represent stakeholders from manufacturers and retailers to mayors and average citizens.

Groups such as Trucking Moves America Forward are joining the effort to promote infrastructure reform by using social media and other means to get the word out.

TMAF is promoting infrastructure-focused messages on its social media properties and has also featured a blog post on the Infrastructure Week website. TMAF advocates for infrastructure spending that improves the highway networks that are most critical to freight and interstate travel, while prioritizing the safety of the motoring public. The group supports action from lawmakers at state and federal levels to close the nation's infrastructure investment gap.

"When poor infrastructure slows down trucking, it slows down all of America," said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF, president of Jet Express and chairman of American Trucking Associations. "With our 3.5 million drivers traveling 279.1 billion miles annually to deliver the goods that our towns and cities need to thrive, trucking is directly impacted by poor roads, bridges and tunnels. That's why we're proud to once again support Infrastructure Week and bring this issue to the forefront of national policy conversations."

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There’s An App for That

Max Fuller, co-founder of U.S. Xpress, is known for being on the leading edge of new trucking technology. After all, it was the logo of the Tennessee-based truckload giant that was emblazoned across the Nikola hydrogen-electric truck prototype unveiled last fall. But Nikola and Tesla aren't the only companies bringing technology into trucking that don't have experience in the industry. Some of the hottest companies attracting venture capital these days deal with trucking apps, especially those that promise to do for trucking what Uber did for passengers.

The problem, Fuller says, is these new entrants into the trucking tech arena “don't know what they don't know” — which makes it tough for those in trucking to figure out what these apps are going to mean to the industry.

And it's not like there aren't already enough apps out there to make your head spin, whether you're a trucking exec like Fuller or an independent owner-operator.

You can find hundreds of trucker-oriented apps for smartphones and other mobile devices on the Google Play Store or Apple Store. Truckers can use apps to find parking, find the lowest priced fuel, bypass weigh stations, find freight — the list seems endless.

The term app is used all the time, but it actually can apply to a few different things: a computer application similar to those used on desktop computers; an application that allows access to a web-based platform (Facebook for instance), or a true mobile app designed specifically for mobile devices. Mobile apps tend to be task-specific — finding a parking spot or checking the weather, for example.

In a recent report, market research firm Frost & Sullivan outlined 70 apps widely used in trucking. It grouped them into three categories:

Commentary: No Free Lunch When It Comes to Parts

Rolf Lockwood

Counterfeit, will-fit, or knockoff truck parts remain a serious issue, and you should be concerned. There's a difference between those three, but in the end, one old rule applies: You get what you pay for. And when you see a brake drum or a trailer light or even a wheel fastener that's cheaper than normal, cheaper than it ought to be, your too-good-to-be-true antennae should be picking up a signal.

Some cheaper parts, usually made offshore in places like India and China, might well be worth your money, but this is definitely buyer-beware territory. And an out-and-out counterfeit is potentially a source of real woe, not to mention the illegal side of it that robs the legitimate manufacturer of rightful profit and can mar its good name.

If you're doubting me here, just think about this: Hundreds of people have been killed over the years in air crashes blamed not on storms or terrorists but on “unapproved parts.” The Federal Aviation Administration keeps track of such things, of course, and as of a few years back it blamed nearly 200 airplane accidents on poor-quality counterfeit or knockoff parts that just weren't up to the manufacturer's design criteria.

The problem was big enough that the FAA established the “Suspected Unapproved Parts Program Office” to deal with the issue.

I know of one truck maker caught in this way, having bought wheel fasteners from a cheaper-than-normal source for use on its assembly line. The wheel nuts in question had been correctly marked, but metallurgically they were not what they pretended to be. They'd been bought offshore, in good faith of course, but the quality was sufficiently low that they caused a wreck and killed a four-wheeler in the process.

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