Will moving companies ship my car & furniture together? Shipping your car with your furniture together might seem easy to save money and avoid hiring separate moving companies at first, but that is not the case. If auto shipping companies offer to ship your car in the same container as your [...]
With over 70,000 vehicles shipped in the last 10 years we've gotten to work with 6,000+ different car haulers, some good, some fair and others awful. There are car carriers so diligent and organized they motivate us to get better, others do the bare minimum required by their contract and some left such awful [...]
Accidents involving commercial trucks and drivers are different than accidents involving regular drivers. It is important for commercial drivers to understand these differences and how various laws may affect them in a personal injury lawsuit. Combined State and Federal Laws One of the biggest differences in truck accidents is the number [...]
On October 22, the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee pushed H.R. 3763 a six-year highway bill forward to the full House that would require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to rework the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, including a removal of carrier rankings. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act [...]
Is freight factoring worth the commission? If you’re a truck driver and you want to get paid for your deliveries immediately, then the answer is yes. If you’re looking to have more control over your cash flow, freight factoring can be extremely useful, because it takes the task of bill collecting [...]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has announced new training updates for truck drivers to go into effect in 2016. The FMCSA formed an advisory committee in late 2014 to examine minimal training requirements and determine the duration of classroom sessions and behind-the-wheel [...]
Hours of service regulations for drivers of large, heavy trucks were created to keep fatigued drivers off the road in order to prevent accidents, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) writes in its Interstate Truck Driver’s Guide to Hours of Service. For example, as the FMCSA states on its [...]
As no long-term transportation bill has been approved by the House, Congress will need to take some action before the three-month extension to fund highway maintenance and construction ends at the end of October, writes Dave Zweifel for The Cap Times. Either that, he adds, or the highway fund will have [...]
Should the Age Requirement for a CDL be lowered? There has been a fair amount of discussion in recent months about different things that could be done to curb the subtle decline in truck drivers in the United States. While there are still millions who are choosing this profession as their [...]
