This blog post has outdated content. We have kept it for informational purposes only. Check our blog for updated content. If your trucking company has been struggling to hire drivers, odds are you aren’t alone. A CareerBuilder study just revealed that truck driving jobs are the fourth “hardest-to-fill” positions in the United States. CareerBuilder conducted…
This blog post contains outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our updated blog for new content. Construction jobs are among the most dangerous professions in the U.S. However, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), that situation is improving. While many jobs in the construction realm have high rates…
Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information.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. Pilot Flying J has finished auditing the accounts of its manual fuel rebate customers and sent out checks to each trucking company in the program that…
What on earth is going on with fuel costs? Just last month, the Department of Energy offered trucking companies some welcome news by downwardly revising their diesel price forecast. What a difference one month makes! Now analysts are predicting it will cost drivers nearly 10% more to fuel up. Transportation Factoring and Fuel Prices The…
Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information.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. Recently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced it had allocated $1 million in grant money to help train veterans for jobs in the transportation…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently passed new hours of service rules limiting the amount of time a driver can spend behind the wheel which is forcing truckers to get more sleep, something they don’t want. The trucking industry argues that this rule will worsen the current driver shortage and hurt consumers’ wallets, while…
This blog post has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our updated blog for newer content. According to preliminary findings by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the for-hire trucking industry cut 3,500 payroll jobs in June. This decrease in jobs comes on top of the roughly 2,600 jobs reportedly…
Protecting your fleet’s tires is vital to business success for freight companies. Failing to keep tires intact can easily spell disaster, with every drive potentially leading closer to danger. Even so, danger and damage can be avoided by ensuring your trucks are intact. The Department of Transportation estimates that there are about 500,000 trucking accidents…
This post has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our updated blog for new content. Since transportation industry success is based on traveling the road, driver distraction is the last thing a trucking business needs. Mobile devices continue to rapidly evolve, but a new study was conducted by the…
This blog post has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our updated blog for new content. This week, President Obama revealed a new plan to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which included establishing new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks after 2018 and increasing the use of compressed natural gas as…
Editor’s Note: This article contains outdated content, but has been left up for anyone searching for this information. Check the Factor Finders blog section to find our more recent content. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law on March 23, 2010, despite many businesses’ hopes that the controversial law would be repealed…
This blog post has outdated content. We’ve kept it for informational purposes only. Please refer to our updated blog for new content. Commercial Carrier Journal reported that trucking shareholders outlined shortcomings in the new hour-of service regulation on behalf of fleets, owner-operators, and the enforcement sector at a House subcommittee hearing this week, where Federal…
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