Feb 14, 2011

Truck Driving Jobs | Dedicated Runs

BIGrigdave , dedicated runs 0 Comment

Her is just another reason why a driver wants to work at CR England.  C.R. England has now installed the TeleNav Track into 80 AT&T BlackBerry smart phones.  Drivers in their dedicated routes are using this new software.  This allows the Dedicated Fleets to have tracked the client’s products quicker than before and take the pressure off the driver because the information is more accurate.  In fact, the installation of the TeleNav Track™ actually boosted the moral of the drivers due to less complications and better customer satisfaction.

Before the TeleNav Track™ was installed into the phones, information about the truck was delayed and sometimes incorrect.  C.R. England didn’t have a set driving regulation-tracking system.  Now, CR England can give their clients accurate and complete information about their product as it is being transported from one location to the next.

According to the article, “C.R. England Drives Home New Contracts and Strengthens Customer Service With TeleNav Track™” on productivityapps.itbusinessnet.com, C.R. England has actually increased their client satisfaction all the way up to ninety-nine percent and has brought additional revenue streams just because of the installation of the TeleNav Track ™ right into the smart phones.

Other great aspects to the TeleNav Track™ that the C.R. England, Dedicated drivers see consist of better communications between the client and C.R. England as well as smoother technology that is evolving into better technology down the road.

CR England

CR England has been in business for over 90 years without any driver layoffs.  Known in the Transportation Industry as one of high integrity and regard for their drivers, they are well respected.  With dedicated runs across the country, C.R. England drivers are allowed more home time than other transportation companies.

About TeleNav, Inc.

TeleNav is a frontier company in GPS systems in mobile smart phones.  Known world wide for its mobile location-based applications, they are partnered with major phone companies as well as the phone hardware manufactures.  On NASDQ since mid 2010, they sell their services in 29 countries across the world.

http://productivityapps.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=479829

http://www.crengland.com/about/index.jsp

http://www.telenav.com/about/

Feb 11, 2011

Road Knights Team Placed Together for Ninth Year

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The Canadian Road Knights Team has been around for nine squads and this ninth crew has the honor of being the first to have the Allied Trades Division (ATO) sponsor their group.  The Road Knights Team is a group of drivers that were chosen because of their almost perfect history of safety by their carriers and journalists.  They will have the opportunity in the next year to raise awareness to safety in the transportation industry.  Starting in March, they will be speaking to young potential drivers who have an interest in becoming truck driver themselves.

The honorary drivers are as follows:

“Jack Fielding, Bison Transport

Robin Seale, Erb Group

John Boneschansker, Laidlaw Carriers Van

Barry Wicklum, Meyers Transport

Ravinder Athwal, Municipal Tank Lines

Fran Gooderham, Thomson Terminals

Daniel Santoro, Trimac Transportation.”*

TodaysTrucking.com website ran an article on Feb. 8, 2011, called “#Road Knights for 2011 named by OTA”, giving a personal experience to the honor of being accepted into the Road Knights Team.  Daniel Santoro, the driver from Trimac Transportation, competed to be on the Road Knight Team.  Daniel started his day on Monday by driving to Toronto at 6:30 AM on a Monday morning to speak on truck safety to the Ontario Trucking Association.  After his presentation, he answered questions for 20 minutes, being grilled as to his answers on safety.  He won a place on the prestigious team and wrote on his twitter, “I have made the Ontario Road Knights team for 2011- 2012. I’m very happy to be part of this select team of proud truck drivers.”** As an ambassador, he takes it seriously and is ecstatic to be part of such a great group.

Such a group is so wonderful for potential truck drivers.  There time on the road will inspire new drivers and those new drivers are inspired to focus on safety, the same as their new role models, the Road Knights Team. If you would like more information about becoming a truck driver visit our CR England truck driving school blog.

*http://www.trucknews.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000401684

**http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=25642

Feb 8, 2011

CR England Trucking Company

BIGrigdave , CR England 0 Comment

CR England has recently signed a five-year contract with Alanco Technologies, Inc.’s subsidiary, StarTrak Systems.  This gives CR England the advantage of a better monitoring system in the refrigerated trailers.  Using updated telematics functioning that is integrated into the there system, with the StarTrak’s Reefer Trak® the trucking company now has an improved system for quality of the customer’s goods.

The StarTrak’s Reefer Trak® is a system that monitors as well as controls a refrigerated system.  It also has a system that gives the refrigerated system’s location, conditions of the trailers, fuel usage, as well as the ability to make changes through a remote system.  StarTrak’s Reefer Trak®  can actually turn the system on and off and change temperatures from a different location.  It even has alarms.  All of these capabilities give their customers the comfort of knowing they can control away from the product.  This will reduce their risk of damaged goods as well as security and a more controlled fuel management.

About StarTrak Systems

As a subsidiary of Alanco Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAN), Star Trak Systems is the biggest supplier of tracking of GPS systems as well as remote software for the Transportation Industry.  The StarTrak’s Reefer Trak®  allows their customers a more efficient process that reduces risk through quality control away from the product.  For more information, go to: www.startrak.com.

CR England has been in business for over 90 years.  As a company that stands for quality to their clients, they have built their reputation as one of the nation’s leading refrigerated trucking companies.

They serve their clients through 5 different modes of transportation, the England North American Division, England Mexico, England Dedicated, England Logistics, and England Refrigerated Intermodal.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/aland_alanco-gets-contract-with-cr-england-for-startrak-s-reefertrak-monitoring-service-1414637.html

http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2010/07/21/qualcomm-now-offers-startraks-reefertrak-solution-refrigerated-trailers

Feb 1, 2011

Truck Driving Strike

BIGrigdave , Trucking News 0 Comment

In Johannesburg, South Africa, they are seeing trouble with their truck drivers.  The union truckers in the middle of February plan a nationwide strike.  This strike is due to the union requesting fewer hours, better insurance, a housing allowance, and a 20% pay rise before 2013.  The South African Allied Transport Worker’s Union (SATAWU) is the biggest union in the trucking industry in Africa and has a heavy pull.  June Dube, the South African Allied Transport Worker’s Union first deputy president, was quoted in the arabnews.com as stating: “We don’t think our demands are unjustified.  Other sectors received increases above 10 percent and our demands are fair.”

If this strike proceeds, people fear that food prices will rise in Africa and the seaports will be in traffic jams.  If this case, it would hurt their fragile economic environment even more.

The people are hoping that the law mandated mediation would stop the strike before it happens and there will be no strike.  Luckily, the company wants to be a part of the negotiations.  But unfortunately, the unions are rejecting the 7.5% pay increase, which does not make the peaceful mediation look too promising.

The African Truckers strike brings back memories for the trucking industry from the Greece Truckers strike back in September of 2010.  Although both strikes are based on two different economic reasons, there is similarity in the outcome of the strike.  Both countries fear a rise in food prices and loss of transportation of product.

We here in the United States are fortunate that we have not seen such strikes in the trucking industry.  Such an incident would hurt our fragile economy even more.  The United States truck trailers carried 70% of all US products in 2002.  If truck drivers came together and went on strike, we would be in a situation like Greece last year.  Truck drivers our valued driver and necessity to a stable economy.

http://arabnews.com/world/article244465.ece

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2010/07/26/greece-truckers-idUKLDE66P0M020100726

http://www.memphis.edu/cifts/pdfs/Freight_Baseline.pdf

Dec 14, 2010

Fuel Rates Will Rise at the End of 2010

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In hoping to keep the United States from going into another economic down slide, the Dept. of the Federal Reserve just bought $600 billion in bonds.  They hope that investors will buy the bonds in the near future and new money will enter our economy, creating less pressure on the American taxpayer.

As much as having more money in the system sounds good to those looking for the money, the trucking industry is concerned that this will raise the fuel rates due to inflation (the dollar is worth less because there is too much of a supply).  With the holidays coming right around the corner and thus creating higher rates in fuel due to demand, this makes even higher prices in fuel costs.

The trucking industry is doing well right now in this economy.  More drivers are needed to ship the product that needs to go out across the country.  The cost of the fuel will hurt the now growing freight industry, but with the emergence of new freight needed, drivers will still be needed.  The overhead of trucking companies will rise, but most companies will be fine.

Think about it.  More freight brings in more revenue for a company.  But in the new revenue are higher costs from more expensive drivers due to lack of drivers and higher cost of fuel due to inflation.  A company will still end up in the black on budgets.  Everyone still wins even with the negative of the economy, just less net on the books.  As the economy keeps growing, inflation will disappear and the future looks good for the trucking industry.

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