American Trucking Association

American Trucking Association

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Tractor Semi, Tractor Semi Trailer, used tractor trailer are for sale with special dealer financing and leasing. In this economy, start up and seasoned businesses have the option to obtain coventional financing or secondary off lease and repo financing. In this volatile economy, many lenders have limited funds ear marked for semi trucks, big rig trucks and over the road trucks. Some lenders have vacated this trucking market and have decided to utilize their portfolios in different more stable markets. In this recession, many tractor semi and trailer lenders have simply gone out of business. The start up and seasoned business looking to enter ... Read Full Story
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Financing a truck, truck leasing has solutions to superior credit. During this recession., several conventional truck lenders have goneout of business, have changed their financing requirements.or have limited themselves to nook markets. Semi truck funding is a unpredictable business but with diverse solutions to good quality credit.’ As we know traditional truck financing, two years previously, banks had various application only programs. Addtionally, the financial institutions required partial paperwork qualifications.and offered effortless type requirements. This is a way of the past. nowadays to acquire normal truck leasing, enhanced credit values are at this time mandatory and much more paperwork is necessary. The down payment ... Read Full Story
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) According to Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, she said. “We establish a 72-hour prior history in every NTSB investigation,” Hersman said at the National Press Club in Washington Nov. 16. “Unfortunately, we find fatigue in more incidents and accidents than you would think.” She said the NTSB has recommended the Federal Aviation Administration set hours of service rules for flight crews, aviation mechanics and air traffic controllers, stating it took Congress to change ... Read Full Story
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Long Haul Trucking, CDL truck drivers seeking truck driving jobs and financing in this economy can be a difficult challenge. Many trucking companies are not seeking company drivers or laying off some of their employees due to these difficult economic times.. Due to this recession, larger companies find themselves forced to cut costs while increasing productivity. Many companies they are bringing on independent truck owner-operators to fill in the gaps and meet their needs. At the present time, this may be their solution to this immediate problem. In this economy, many truck drivers have had their credit impaired to these economic conditions. They fill ... Read Full Story
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The American Trucking Association says trucks transport about 70 percent, or 10 billion tons of all U.S. freight annually. But they use at least three times as much energy as trains per ton carried, analysts say. // The recession cut the amount of freight hauled around the country more than 10 percent compared to last year, says the American Trucking Association. But that was a temporary blip. // "As we expect a tremendous increase in freight...  
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From the American Trucking Association: ATA Truck Tonnage Index Dipped 0.2 Percent in October Click on graph for slightly larger image in new window.The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.2 percent in October, following a 0.3 percent contraction in September. The latest decline lowered the SA index to 103.6 (2000=100) from the revised 103.8 in September. ...Compared with...  
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The American Trucking Association has honored the West Virginia Motor Truck Association and Jan Vineyard, its president, for the state organizations work to increase public awareness of the trucking industry.The state affiliate was honored last month durin...  
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Dale Hanington, president & CEO of the Maine Motor Transport Assn., has been awarded the American Trucking Assns.’s (ATA) President’s Annual TAEC Leadership Award. The award recognizes the chief of the state trucking association that has gone above and beyond in its support of ATA, its members and the trucking industry at large  
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From the American Trucking Association: ATA Truck Tonnage Index Slipped 0.3 Percent in September Click on graph for slightly larger image in new window.The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.3 percent in September, after increasing 2.1 percent in both July and August. The latest decline lowered the SA index to 103.9 (2000=100). ...Compared with September 2008, SA tonnage...  
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