Sling Control

US trucking companies may face a 30 percent surge in wage bills by 2014 as rising demand for freight shipments threatens to push the industry’s driver shortage to the longest on record.

Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2011/09/us-trucking-faces-drivers-shortage?fromrss=1

Ratchet Strap

stories like the trucker last week, that stopped on a 5% down grade blocking the runaway escape ramp?!!! :biggrin_25510: Then got out of the truck to…

Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/stories-from-the-road/154430-you-mean.html

Ratchet Tie Down

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., an interstate trucking company, doesn’t want to put drivers with a history of drinking problems behind the wheel, and has accordingly been sued by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act , under which alcoholism is considered a protected … (more)

Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2011/08/eeoc-drinking-history-no-reason-to-withhold-heavy-trucking-jobs?fromrss=1

Ratchet Strap

Transplace said Wednesday it promoted George Abernathy to the post of president of Transplace Logistics, its third-party logistics, truck brokerage and consulting units.

Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2011/08/transplace-names-abernathy-president-of-3pl-brokerage-unit?fromrss=1

Truck Tie Downs