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State’s Supreme Court allows 80,000-driver lawsuit against Swift to proceed

http://www.ccjdigital.com/az-supreme-court-allows-80000-driver-lawsuit-against-swift-to-proceed/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=02-21-2017&utm_campaign=Commercial Carrier Journal&ust_id=124f9551466b2c5785e539d1cda3c973#

Drivers allege the Arizona-based company ignores drivers’ reports of actual miles driven and instead uses an artificial calculation that shorts mileage pay. Class participants are Swift drivers employed since 1998 who seek recovery of unpaid miles.
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The bigger injustice isn't what miles they weren't paid for, but rather the mileage pay for the miles they were paid for!!
 
Redracer3136 said:
The bigger injustice isn't what miles they weren't paid for, but rather the mileage pay for the miles they were paid for!!
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Well, check the skies for the 4 horseman of the apocalypse, there's something I agree with you on. I just looked at their 2015 pay scale. $0.25 p/m starting and $0.40 p/m running east after 5 years. This is based on a 300+ mile run.

Disgraceful. That's 3 cents less than Schneider was paying in 2000 when I started there.

http://www.truckdriverssalary.com/swift-transportation-pay-scale/
 
The Nature Boy said:
Well, check the skies for the 4 horseman of the apocalypse, there's something I agree with you on. I just looked at their 2015 pay scale. $0.25 p/m starting and $0.40 p/m running east after 5 years. This is based on a 300+ mile run.

Disgraceful. That's 3 cents less than Schneider was paying in 2000 when I started there.

http://www.truckdriverssalary.com/swift-transportation-pay-scale/
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Yeah. That 43,000 a year average for over the road would sure be hard to pass up...
 
The Nature Boy said:
Well, check the skies for the 4 horseman of the apocalypse, there's something I agree with you on. I just looked at their 2015 pay scale. $0.25 p/m starting and $0.40 p/m running east after 5 years. This is based on a 300+ mile run.

Disgraceful. That's 3 cents less than Schneider was paying in 2000 when I started there.

http://www.truckdriverssalary.com/swift-transportation-pay-scale/
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I don't see how they can even get people to drive for them...

Wasn't the Nature Boy one of the original 4 horsemen??
 
XPO Logistics Notches First Full-Year Profit Since 2011

Read more at: http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=44994&page=1

"In the 2016 fourth quarter, the company earned $27.3 million, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of $3.68 billion.

During the last three months of 2015, the company had a net loss of $62.8 million, or 58 cents, on revenue of $3.34 billion. North American LTL is XPO’s largest single division. In the fourth quarter, it generated operating income of $54.7 million on revenue of $844.8 million.

In the 2015 fourth quarter, operating income was $26.8 million on revenue of $850.9 million. Quarterly operating ratio — expenses as a percentage of revenue — improved to 93.5 from 96.9."
 
Remarks by President Trump at Listening Session on Domestic and International Human Trafficking

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pres...-listening-session-domestic-and-international

"...and I want to make it clear today that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking. And I am prepared to bring the full force and weight of our government to the federal and at the federal level, and the other highest levels, whatever we can do, in order to solve this horrific problem. It's getting worse and it's happening in the United States in addition to the rest of the world, but it's happening in the United States, which is terrible.

Human trafficking is a dire problem, both domestically and internationally, and is one that's made really a challenge. And it's really made possible to a large extent, more of a modern phenomenon, by what's taking place on the Internet, as you probably know. Solving the human trafficking epidemic, which is what it is, is a priority for my administration. We're going to help out a lot. "Solve" is a wonderful word, a beautiful word, but I can tell you, we're going to help a lot."
 
Central Freight Lines plans to buy Wilson Trucking

http://fleetowner.com/fleet-managem...m=email&elq2=1831dd3560044454aa6c5c7883dc11a9

"CFL – which itself is 90 years old and operates primarily in the western and southwestern U.S. through a network of 56 terminals – hopes to expand its “competitive position” in the southeastern U.S. freight market, as well as that of Puerto Rico’s, via its Wilson acquisition, noted Don Orr, CFL’s president and CEO, in a statement."

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/base...utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter

"The companies said they expect the transaction to close by March 31.

"This is an important move for Central Freight Lines,” said Central CEO Don Orr. “It allows us to fulfill our strategy of being the premier coast-to-coast Sunbelt LTL provider in the industry. We look forward to adding Wilson's customers to Central's list of highly satisfied customers."
 
SwampRatt said:
Central Freight Lines plans to buy Wilson Trucking

http://fleetowner.com/fleet-managem...m=email&elq2=1831dd3560044454aa6c5c7883dc11a9

"CFL – which itself is 90 years old and operates primarily in the western and southwestern U.S. through a network of 56 terminals – hopes to expand its “competitive position” in the southeastern U.S. freight market, as well as that of Puerto Rico’s, via its Wilson acquisition, noted Don Orr, CFL’s president and CEO, in a statement."

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/base...utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter

"The companies said they expect the transaction to close by March 31.

"This is an important move for Central Freight Lines,” said Central CEO Don Orr. “It allows us to fulfill our strategy of being the premier coast-to-coast Sunbelt LTL provider in the industry. We look forward to adding Wilson's customers to Central's list of highly satisfied customers."
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I wonder if Wilson will finally start paying overtime after this acquisition??
 
Eaton Looks to a Future of 48 Volt

Read more at: http://www.ttnews.com/articles/showtemplatetmc2017.aspx?storyid=45063

"It is just an architecture change from a 12-volt system, and “the power electronics to do it is not rocket science, either. I think we are on that cusp,” Larry Bennett, director of vehicle technology and innovation at Eaton Corp., told Transport Topics here Feb. 26 at the annual meeting of American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council."


Moving to 48 volts in trucking

http://fleetowner.com/equipment/mov...m=email&elq2=67362bb8f1dc41699455c592ace7cf99

"Larry Bennett, director of the vehicle technology center for the vehicle group at Eaton Corp., explained during a presentation at the 2017 TMC conference that “electrification” of commercial trucks is going to become a more prominent trend – and as a result trucks will need to step up to a 48 volt environment."
 
NPS launches “Trooper in a Truck” program

https://nebraskaradionetwork.com/2017/02/27/nps-launches-trooper-in-a-truck-program/

"Lt. Von Minden says, “We run it just like we would run an enforcement effort with an aircraft. There is going to be a trooper or a sergeant in a truck with a radio. He is going to be observing traffic in and around that truck. There will be other officers stationed nearby and if he sees something that qualifies as dangerous behavior or a violation, he is going to call it out to other troopers in marked units and they will then stop the person and issue the appropriate enforcement memorandum.”"
 
Remote updates coming for Volvo trucks

http://fleetowner.com/maintenance/r...m=email&elq2=33bed79fdc6a4556ac2174b3e8d743ce

"Volvo is launching the over-the-air service because up to 75% of updates are currently being ignored because of the downtime involved in bringing a truck into a shop, Makki said during a briefing at the annual Technology and Maintenance Council meeting. “Downtime for doing upgrades in a shop currently averages 2.3 days, and we estimate that a truck out of service costs a fleet about $1,100 a day in lost revenue,” he said."

No surprise, Mack follows suit.
Mack announces OTA programming for 2018 models, free trial of Telogis Fleet

http://www.ccjdigital.com/mack-anno...rnal&ust_id=124f9551466b2c5785e539d1cda3c973#
 
Starsky Robotics Sees 'Last Mile' Solution for Driverless Trucks

Read more at: http://www.ttnews.com/articles/base...utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter


"Our remote drivers will pilot trucks from the door of the distribution center to the highway, then remotely engage the autonomous system," Seltz-Axmacher said. "When the truck gets close to the off-ramp, another remote driver will take control of the vehicle" to its final destination.

Seltz-Axmacher said Starsky already has begun testing its system and expects to "remove human drivers from certain vehicles by the end of the year."
 
It is coming and those who keep saying never need to go apply at the Buggy Whip company. Will trucking jobs be replaced next year in mass, no. The race to reduce cost will eventually remove many delivery positions in our lifetime. Robotics, autonomous vehicles and drones will impact our industry.
 
SwampRatt said:
NPS launches “Trooper in a Truck” program

"Lt. Von Minden says, “We run it just like we would run an enforcement effort with an aircraft. There is going to be a trooper or a sergeant in a truck with a radio. He is going to be observing traffic in and around that truck. There will be other officers stationed nearby and if he sees something that qualifies as dangerous behavior or a violation, he is going to call it out to other troopers in marked units and they will then stop the person and issue the appropriate enforcement memorandum.”"
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Sounds like the city police running around in blacked out charter buses in DFW.
 
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