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Florida Truckers Say 'Road Rage' Getting Worse, Not Better

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"Jacksonville-based truckers say if people better understood the challenges of driving 18-wheelers, they’d be less inclined to spar with them on the roads. Lane changes and merging trigger the vast majority of road rage between trucks and other vehicles, the drivers said. That’s especially true of cars squeezing in front of tractor-trailers, forcing them to slam on the brakes."
 
Bendix unveils multimedia center for trucking industry

http://www.safertrucks.com/knowledge-dock#video

“The new addition to safertrucks.com is accessible 24/7/365,” Bendix said. “It delivers insight, expertise, and perspectives that all industry participants – from fleet leadership, owner-operators, and drivers to technicians, regulators, legislators, engineers, and business leads – will find useful in their day-to-day operations as well as longer range planning.”

Lots of Hype. We'll see if it delivers.
 
SwampRatt said:
Amazon Patents Flying Warehouse for Better Drone Deliveries

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Brilliant. Now we have to watch for these stupid things blotting the sun out? To say nothing of what will happen if one of them falls out of the sky. Unlike a single drone, a FLYING WAREHOUSE is going to be problematic for a lot of people if it fails.
 
Canadian Flyer said:
Brilliant. Now we have to watch for these stupid things blotting the sun out? To say nothing of what will happen if one of them falls out of the sky. Unlike a single drone, a FLYING WAREHOUSE is going to be problematic for a lot of people if it fails.
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That ain't no warehouse, it's a battle station! Bezos' Death Star!! It will wipe out all other terrestrial 3PL warehouses!!
(Cue Star Wars theme)
 
Canadian Flyer said:
Brilliant. Now we have to watch for these stupid things blotting the sun out? To say nothing of what will happen if one of them falls out of the sky. Unlike a single drone, a FLYING WAREHOUSE is going to be problematic for a lot of people if it fails.
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Who's going to work on the stupid thing?
 
FMCSA, states using new investigative techniques in carriers’ on-site compliance reviews

http://www.ccjdigital.com/fmcsa-sta...urnal&ust_id=124f9551466b2c5785e539d1cda3c973

"He used the example of the requirement for carriers to have for each of its trucks an annual inspection. “In the past,” he said, “what you’d been able to do was, as long as you had that piece of paper” showing you did the inspection, “the auditor would check the box and move on. What they’re doing now is looking past the documents and looking into the culture of the company. They’re holding sequestered one-on-one interviews with accounting, with sales, with drivers, and checking social media."
 
U.S. Payrolls Rise 156,000 as Wages Increase Most Since 2009

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ise-156-000-as-wages-increase-most-since-2009

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"Among the details of the December report, the participation rate, which shows the share of working-age people in the labor force, increased to 62.7 percent, from 62.6 percent. It has been hovering close to the lowest level in more than three decades."

This low participation rate is what drives the illusion of very low unemployment numbers. Political deception, at it's finest...
 
Trump's Trade Team Suggests His Hardnosed Campaign Talk Was No Bluff

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"It’s clear this wasn’t just campaign rhetoric. The team that the president-elect has put in place was at the core of advising him during the campaign and has a clear playbook of what it wants to implement," said Mark Wu, an assistant professor at Harvard Law School who worked in the office of the U.S. trade representative under George W. Bush. "They’ve been pretty straightforward about their view of the status quo, which is that it undermines American economic interests."
 
SwampRatt said:
U.S. Payrolls Rise 156,000 as Wages Increase Most Since 2009

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ise-156-000-as-wages-increase-most-since-2009

Key Fact:
"Among the details of the December report, the participation rate, which shows the share of working-age people in the labor force, increased to 62.7 percent, from 62.6 percent. It has been hovering close to the lowest level in more than three decades."

This low participation rate is what drives the illusion of very low unemployment numbers. Political deception, at it's finest...
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The great secret. The great lie. And one of Barack Obama's legacies.
 
Smart Windshields Seen as the New Ad Billboards

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Automakers, technology companies and glass manufacturers are teaming up to turn the display that graces the front of an iPhone into the windshield of a car — one that can show ads, directions and vehicle information to the person behind the wheel.

Please, say no to ads on the windshield. Absolutely not.
 
Trucking Executives Frustrated Shippers Trying to Lock In Low Rates

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“We saw a bunch of touch-feely bids go out in November and December to see how high the rates were going to go,” Keith said. “Anyone who is thinking or asking for a 5% reduction this year has lost their minds. ... We’re not giving you a 5% reduction, so there’s no sense in wasting my time.”
 
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