Today, the House and the Senate passed a 90-Day Transportation Bill extension. The bill H.R. 4281, will provide an extension of funding for our nation’s, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing such programs. The House Republicans will use the next three months to…
February 22, 2012 Provided by Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has launched new security requirements to fight crime on international highways. The new Trucking Security Requirements (TSR) took effect on January 1, 2012, and requires a mandatory certification for all their members. In regards, to non-asset based Logistics Service Providers (LSP) the TSR requires two…
The railroads have been working with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA) to join an offer to extend the cooling off period that was accepted by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (BMWE). Under the terms of the Railway Labor Act, the current cooling off period will expire at 12:01…
While the surge in activity in Western North Dakota has brought about 1000′s of new jobs, it has had a negative effect on the transportation industry in both service and pricing. In a market where carriers are already challenged to locate driver due to CSA requirements, many qualified drivers are leaving their positions and applying for high-paying jobs within the…
July 8th-9th, 2011 LPS employees volunteered with the Twin Cities Habitat Brush with Kindness program by scraping, painting, fixing and replacing siding. Before and after pictures below. A Brush with Kindness paints, landscapes, and does minor repairs to the exterior of homes for low-income residents, and at no cost to them. In particular, it focuses on those homeowners in difficult…
By Ronald D. White Los Angeles Times 11/08/2011 If you think gasoline is expensive now, just wait until next year: A combination of growing global demand and rising U.S. fuel exports could send gasoline prices to record highs in 2012, analysts say. Those factors have been pushing pump prices to historically high levels since the beginning of September, and the…