Transportation

10 Reasons to Choose Transportation Factoring

We can go on and on about the benefits of transportation factoring. That’s just because they’re that plentiful.In all honesty, it doesn’t matter if you are an owner-operator or running a large trucking company, there’s a good chance that partnering with a transportation factoring company can help your business. Here are 10 reasons to consider…

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Could Technology Make Truck Drivers Obsolete?

Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information.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. Caterpillar Inc. is currently testing driverless trucks in Australia. The self-driving trucks use guidance systems that are monitored by “technical specialists” from a control room that…

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Some Trucking Companies Unhappy with Pilot Flying J Settlement

Editor’s Note: This article contains outdated content, but has been left up for anyone searching for this information.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. Will the Pilot Flying J settlement benefit trucking companies who were cheated on fuel rebates? Lawyers for many trucking companies don’t think so. Most are…

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Report Reveals Truck Drivers as the 4th Toughest Job to Fill

This blog post has outdated content.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…

Transportation Factoring Helps Drivers Combat High Fuel Prices

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…

Government Grant to Help Train Vets for Transportation Jobs

Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information.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…

New Hours of Service Restrictions Already Impacts Truckers, Industry

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…

3500 Trucking Jobs Lost in June

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…

Raising FMCSA Standards May Harm Owner-Operators

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. Research released by a group of trucking companies shows the federal insurance requirement for the industry is too low.  The Trucking Alliance, an organization made up…

Pilot Flying J Fuel Rebate Scandal: What’s Going On?

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 April, federal agents stormed the business of Jimmy Haslam, Cleveland Browns owner and CEO of Pilot Flying J in Knoxville, Tenn., seizing records, files, emails,…

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Increasing Costs and Regulations Hurt Small Trucking Companies

According to an article from Commercial Carrier Journal, the American Trucking Association (ATA) Chairman and Combined Transport President Mike Card told attendees at the Great West Fleet Conference that smaller carriers can’t function with the higher costs of industry regulations and won’t be able to keep themselves afloat any longer. “Trucking has been consolidated,” Card…

Travel Chain Faces Another Class Action Lawsuit

The punches keep on coming for Pilot Flying J travel centers, as another class-action lawsuit has been filed against the beleaguered company. The suit claims that Pilot has withheld tens of millions of dollars in rebates to trucking companies since 2005 and accuses the company of a number of things including fraud, concealment, breach of…

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