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Rising Number of Toll Roads Breeds Driver Consternation

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. Many states are trying to find alternative means to raise necessary infrastructure funds in order to avoid raising taxes. Toll roads are becoming the go-to solution, much to the dismay of drivers. Federal and state…

FMSCA Finalizes Rules on Emergency Exemption, Hours of Service

Following the signing of the Reliable Home Heating Act in June, the FMCSA will publish an amendment to the federal hours of service safety regulations today allowing exemptions for certain states of emergency. The “polar vortex” last winter caused colder temperatures throughout most of the United States, causing shortages of home heating fuels and both…

5 Ways to Improve Truck Driver Relationships

Truckers’ Health and Productivity A happy, healthy truck driver is a safe truck driver. People of all professions, in the transportation industry and elsewhere, tend to preform better when they have top-notch physical and emotional health. Maintaining the health and safety of your drivers is essential to operating efficiently and avoiding trouble by way of…

House Bill Seeks to Remove Public CSA Scores

Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information. Check the EZ Invoice Factoring blog section to find our more recent content. Congress has taken up the debate over public CSA scores. Last month, a number of trucking industry groups called on Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx to…

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National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2022

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. September 11-17, 2022 is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week — a week dedicated to spotlighting all the time and hard work truck drivers put into their jobs so the United States can function better as…

Oil & Gas Industry Continues to Boom

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. The number of new oil and gas wells has remained fairly steady in the last several years, but output has risen dramatically thanks to an increase in production – the opposite of energy boom skeptics’…

FedEx Ground Drivers – Employees, Not Contractors

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. Despite FedEx’s insistence that thousands of their FedEx Ground drivers are independent contractors, a federal appeals court has ruled that they are actually employees – and entitled to compensation for their misclassification. Employees, Not Contractors…

Truckers Call for CSA Safety Scores to be Made Private

An alliance of trucking industry groups has urged Anthony Foxx, Department of Transportation Secretary, to remove publicly visible safety ratings from the CSA Web site. Based on a February report from the Government Accountability Office, groups including the American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association have expressed their desire for the change. The…

Logistics’ Future May Lie in Tech Companies

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. In the July issue of Wired magazine, Marcus Wohlsen paints a compelling picture of the potential (and likely) near-future of logistics. His argument: innovators like tech companies Amazon and Google will spearhead the tech transition…

Higher Wages May Be the Key to Fixing the Driver Shortage

This page has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our blog for updated content. The continuing shortage of qualified truck drivers is nothing new.  The trucking industry has been experiencing a truck driver shortage for the past several years – and will continue as a trucking trend. With demand…

CCJ Issues 10-Year Forecast for Trucking Industry

Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information. Check the EZ Invoice Factoring blog section to find our more recent content. In a comprehensive blog post late last month, CCJ Digital’s Jack Roberts laid out a projection of the trucking industry’s coming challenges in the next ten…

Trucking Industry Continues to Feel the Weight of Driver Shortage

Quarterly reporting by the American Trucking Associations shows driver turnover of more than 90 percent going into a third consecutive year, according to Business Insider. High turnover does not mean that most drivers are leaving their positions; it does, however, indicate that many new drivers are changing carriers within a matter of weeks to months.…

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