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  1. OntarioVanMan

    Traffic moving on I-29 after months of flooding

    Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 OMAHA, Neb. -- Traffic is moving again on Interstate 29 in southwest Iowa after four months of long detours because of flooding on the Missouri River. The Iowa Department of Transportation opened I-29 from near Pacific Junction to the Missouri border on...
  2. OntarioVanMan

    Canada Happy Thanksgiving Canadian Members!

    Have a good one.....:D I sure miss the October feast....:o
  3. OntarioVanMan

    Temp controlled market...

    One for those who have reefers.. Refrigerated Trucks Haul More Than Just Perishables - Inbound Logistics
  4. OntarioVanMan

    Boehner, Cantor Attack Trucking HOS Rewrite

    Boehner, Cantor Attack Trucking HOS Rewrite | Journal of Commerce
  5. OntarioVanMan

    Private Weather Forecaster says....

    yet another tough winter... AccuWeather.com Winter 2011-2012 Forecast: Another Brutal One This day in History... Rapid City, SD (1990) Yesterday it was 89 degrees; today it was freezing with snow showers
  6. OntarioVanMan

    No money in Trucking?

    Ingram Industries includes Ingram Marine Group, a company with a heritage hailing back to the 1940s that has more than 4,000 barges on U.S. waterways. The other side of the business, Ingram Content Group, is the largest wholesale distributor of books in the world, including print-on-demand and...
  7. OntarioVanMan

    Water, Water, Everywhere

    Good time to just avoid the whole N/E coast... Remnants of Lee bring fresh flood worries to East - weather.com
  8. OntarioVanMan

    Looks to be even more rain for the east coast

    Hurricane Katia looks like it may not make a US landfall.
  9. OntarioVanMan

    Feeling richer?

    It is an illusion...:cool: July - Aug - Sept period..by quirk of calender... IF paid by the week..there are 14 paydays ... July had 5 Fridays, Aug had 4, Sept again will have 5... still feeling rich?
  10. OntarioVanMan

    NY-NJ Truck Tolls to Double

    NY-NJ Truck Tolls to Double | Journal of Commerce In a related article: ATA Seeks Veto of NY-NJ Toll Increase | Journal of Commerce
  11. OntarioVanMan

    Express-1 Investor Eyes Intermodal Brokerage

    To continue my intermodal tirade... Express-1 Investor Eyes Intermodal Brokerage | Journal of Commerce “There are four verticals within the brokerage space that, together, represent a very large acquisition universe — about $200 billion in aggregate,” Jacobs said. Long-haul domestic...
  12. OntarioVanMan

    Ryder Plans to Divert More Shipments to Rail

    Ryder Looks to Rails for Capacity | Journal of Commerce We;ve all seen them going up all over the country...Intermodal sites....in the middle of corn fields...there is no denying it will impact trucking....interesting the time difference in shipping has been cut dramatically in the last few...
  13. OntarioVanMan

    North American Toyota Production Expected to Reach 100 Percent in September

    Toyota USA Newsroom | North American Toyota Production Expected to Reach 100 Percent in September Parts Recovery Is Earlier Than Anticipated ERLANGER, Ky. (June 16, 2011) – North American vehicle production levels are expected to return to 100 percent in September, Toyota said today...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    New Plant in Mexico NOT closing any US or Can. Plants just an expansion.

    Honda to Build New Automobile Plant in Mexico for Production of Subcompact Vehicles, Starting in 2014 - Honda.com In addition to the new auto plant in Mexico, Honda recently announced plans to expand production at several of its plants in the U.S. and Canada: The Honda plant in...
  15. OntarioVanMan

    Canada More work from Toyota for Canada

    Toyota to build, not sell, new EV here | Wheels.ca Leaving the ill-fated and mostly non-street-legal Zenn Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle out of the equation, it looks like Toyota will the first modern automaker to build a production electric vehicle here in Canada. Already seen on the auto...
  16. OntarioVanMan

    At What point

    Do you think is hump year? You've made it now...you have your system, you are working the system, the truck is set-up, the PM is all scheduled, bills are paid....you have your fishing holes for loads when times are tight...
  17. OntarioVanMan

    What if there were no....

    What if there were no fleet owners, no fleets... in your best guess...would we single owner operators be better off without fleets? or worse off....
  18. OntarioVanMan

    From Pilot/J Newsletter

    In case some aren't subscribers... New Household Card Accounts We are simplifying our rewards cardholder system to make transactions easier for you. Beginning in September, all cards will be filed in "household accounts." This means that all cards registered under the same phone number...
  19. OntarioVanMan

    Aug 01 Question of the day

    Ok gang...:D You are picking a marginal money wise load in Toledo going to Pittsburgh....Customer won't pay tolls. Truck size aside it is going to cost YOU.....Now do you take the toll road? OR take Hwy 2 or US 20 across and be right on time or be a few minutes late...and in your mind you are...
  20. OntarioVanMan

    Question of the Day

    Ok all you legal beagles and moralistic hacks.... I get a room last night and I get assigned a disabled room...they are drive ups.....I get to my room and they have the markers of disabled...both signed and symbol on the pavement...each room has one....so do I. or don't I? Am I legally...
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