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26 • July 1-14, 2019 Perspective THETRUCKER.COM OWNER OPERATORS! BECOME A PART OF THE MCCOLLISTER’S TEAM! • OPPORTUNITIES - CLASS A & B OTR & REGIONAL • SPECIAL COMMODITIES/TRUCKLOAD • LTL ELECTRONICS - EVERYTHING FROM DELICATE ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT TO ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES. • CLIMATE - HIGH END ELECTRONICS, ART WORK, AND MUSEUM MOVES. • ENCLOSED AUTO TRANSPORT - HANDLING, ANTIQUE, EXOTIC, MUSCLE CAR AND MORE. • HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL JOE AT 609-526-9490 WWW.MCCOLLISTERS.COM Driver Retention Program First year $3,500 2nd $5000 3rd $7000 THE MCCOLLISTER’S DIFFERENCE: 100% OF FUEL SURCHARGE • PERCENTAGE PAY WEEKLY SE<strong>TT</strong>LEMENTS • DIRECT DEPOSIT REAL START UP BONUS DESIGNED BY DRIVERS u $2,500 t b Courses from page 25 b per rolls with a combined weight of 5,000 pounds or more. The course covers the importance of correctly restraining paper rolls, describes the common methods to properly secure paper rolls, as well as how to secure paper rolls with different orientations. The “Requirements for Concrete Pipes,” course details special requirements needed to transport one or more concrete pipes loaded onto a flatbed trailer, using the loading method of ‘eyes crosswise’ to prevent rolling. The course breaks down the importance of correctly securing concrete pipes, devices used to properly fasten concrete pipes and things to consider before loading concrete pipes onto a trailer. The course also includes techniques on how to properly secure concrete pipes on a flatbed trailer. Also new to CarriersEdge subscribers is a course on bloodborne pathogens, titled “Bloodborne Pathogens Safety Awareness.” This course is designed to help drivers understand the hazards associated with bloodborne pathogens and provide guidance on how to stay safe in potential exposure areas. Bloodborne pathogens are disease-causing b Tire from page 25 b at full capacity can offer any additional TBR and OTR products. “The combination of our new state-of-art manufacturing facility and warehousing in Thailand where we can offer very competitive pricing, Double Coin is emerging as the clear choice for TBR and OTR tire products,” Phillips said. Built on a 3.6 million square-foot site, the Thailand facility has the capacity to manufacture over 1.8 million TBR tires as well as over 50,000 OTR tires. The entire plant is controlled by the Manufacturing Execution System and is integrated with the SAP microorganisms that are transmitted through bodily fluid. After completing the course, drivers will be able to identify major bloodborne pathogens, how they are transmitted and what to do if exposed. Drivers will also learn ways to minimize the spread of an infection, and how to properly dispose of contaminated material. For those travelling through the Northeast region of the U.S., the “Preventing the Spread of Spotted Lanternfly” course CarriersEdge now offers teaches drivers how to identify a spotted lanternfly in different stages of its lifecycle, the threat spotted lanternfly poses, and how to kill, remove the eggs and report a spotted lanternfly sighting. The course also explains how to avoid having the insect attach to your vehicle and where it might “hide.” The spotted lanternfly is indigenous to parts of Asia, but has recently been found primarily in Pennsylvania, where there is a quarantine. The invasive insect is considered a threat to vegetation and valuable crops in the area. Lastly, CarriersEdge continues to offer courses in other languages. “We just added Spanish versions for our “Lift Truck Operator Skills” and “Distracted Driving” courses,” Jazrawy said. “Our goal is to help fleets become safer, and these additions are great resources for our clients to achieve that.” 8 management system. Plans for expansion at the Thailand facility are currently underway. “In addition to our production capacity at our Thailand facility, we currently have full capacity of Double Coin tires at our five warehouses in Memphis, Tennessee; Rancho Cucamonga, California; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; San Jose; Costa Rica; and Queretaro, Mexico,” Phillips said. For more information about Double Coin Tires, visit doublecointires.com. 8 100% OWNER OPERATORS Join a tradition that has succeeded for over 75 years! A Business Partner you can count on! With your experience in over-dimensional freight and our professional support, we can show you the true value of Diamond. $1,250 Sign-On Compensation Quaterly Safety Compensation One Point of Contact - FleetMgr. Weekly Settlements & Direct Deposit Lease Purchase Option Small Fleets Welcome Call 262-554-4025 or visit www.diamondrecruit.com Scan this qr code to learn more about Diamond Transportation System, Inc. Referral Compensation $4,000
Features July 1-14, 2019 • 27 Nearly 50,000 of nation’s bridges are unsafe, in poor condition, study says THE TRUCKER NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — The length of America’s structurally deficient bridges if placed end-to-end would span nearly 1,100 miles, the distance between Chicago and Houston, a new examination of federal government data shows. And it’s a problem that hits close to home. The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) analysis of the U.S. Department of Transportation National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database reveals 47,052 bridges are classified as structurally deficient and in poor condition. Cars, trucks and school buses cross these compromised structures 178 million times every day, the data show. Nearly 1,775 are on the Interstate Highway System. The most traveled structurally deficient bridges are on parts of Route 101, Interstate 405 and Interstate 5 in California, where daily crossings are as high as 289,000 vehicles per day. Although the number of structurally deficient bridges is down slightly compared to 2017, the pace of improvement has slowed to the lowest point since ARTBA began compiling this report five years ago. “Sadly, this report is no April Fool’s joke. At the current pace, it would take more than 80 years to replace or repair the nation’s structurally deficient bridges. That’s longer than the average life expectancy of a person living in the U.S.,” said Dr. Alison Premo Black, the ARTBA chief economist who conducted the How would you like to drive where ‘road warriors’ are real and you’re the target? I’m going to play the odds here and guess that at some point today, or at least this week, anybody reading this has had to put up with some aspect of being a truck driver that they really hate. And it’s probably something that you have to put up with on a regular basis. Something unavoidable. Something that’s just part of the job or of the life that goes with the job. In fact, I’ll bet there’s more than one thing about the job that eats at you. Even if, overall, you would say you like being a professional truck driver, there are those pet aggravations that make you wonder to yourself, “Why do I put up with this?” Always remember, it could be worse. Also playing the odds, I’m guessing that at least once in your childhood, you refused to eat what was on your plate and some adult tried to pull the old “There are starving children in Africa” routine. It didn’t make the Brussel sprouts any more appealing, but maybe it gave you an early taste of perspective. Putting the two together, whatever it is about the truck driving profession that you find unpalatable, there are truck drivers in analysis. “America’s bridge network is outdated, underfunded and in urgent need of modernization. State and local governments just haven’t been given the necessary resources to get the job done.” The report comes in the backdrop of ongoing discussions between Congress and the Trump administration about how to address the nation’s transportation infrastructure challenges, discussions which bogged down after Trump walked out of a meeting after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accused him of taking part in a cover-up. “The best way to ‘bridge’ the infrastructure investment gap is for Congress and Trump administration to provide a permanent revenue solution for the federal Highway Trust Fund,” ARTBA President Dave Bauer said. The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is the source, on average, of more than 50 percent of highway and bridge capital investments made annually by state transportation departments. The HTF is facing major financial difficulties. Absent congressional action, states could see a 40 percent cut in federal investment beginning in 2021. “Since the 2016 election, leaders on both sides of the aisle have regularly cited upgrading America’s infrastructure as an area for common ground,” Bauer said. “This report makes clear that it’s about time Congress and the Trump administration stop talking and start solving this national problem.” See Bridges on p28 m Klint Lowry klint.lowry@thetrucker.com Lane Departures South Africa who would love to have your working conditions. At least no one is trying to kill you. Have you heard about what’s going on over there? On other parts of the continent, they may be concerned about poachers going after elephants and rhinos and other big game. In South Africa, truck drivers are the endangered species. So far in 2019, there have been hundreds of attacks on trucks in South African highways. The country’s Road Freight Association — South Africa’s equivalent to the American Trucking Associations — estimates that in the past year fatalities from these attacks are occurring at a rate of nearly one per day. The attackers have used projectiles, Associated Press: JULIO CORTEZ A vehicle rides on Liberty Avenue ahead of a project to remodel the Route 495 bridge which feeds into the Lincoln Tunnel in North Bergen, New Jersey. The repairs will take two years to complete. The connection between the New Jersey Turnpike and the tunnel into New York City is already one of the worst bottlenecks in the northeastern U.S. More than 150,000 motorists drive daily over the 80-year-old viaduct, which is considered structurally deficient and functionally obsolete. dropping boulders and bricks from overpasses. They’ve blockaded roads. And in some parts of the country, they’ve taken to using firebombs. Just as the methods have varied in these attacks, so have the motivations. South Africa does not have a driver shortage. If anything, they have too many qualified truck drivers. In the part of the country where the firebombs have been most prevalent, South African officials have said the attacks have been in protest of unscrupulous carriers who try to save a buck (or in South Africa, a rand) by hiring uncredentialed foreign nationals, keeping native-born drivers on the sidelines. In one incident two brothers were driving tandem, and they decided to pull over for some rest. One of the trucks was firebombed, and when the driver got out and ran, a second gasoline bomb was thrown directly at him. But in large part the attacks are seen as being directed at carriers, with the drivers being collateral damage. In a recent case that has become a stop-the-violence rallying symbol, two men, both credentialed South Africans, stopped their truck to rest. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail into the cab. One man escaped. The other died from his burns 12 days later. Many of the attacks, especially near the coast, have been motivated by nothing but sheer greed in the growing chaos by gangs who will toss something through the windshield of a passing truck so the driver will lose control and crash. Then the robbers swarm in like hyenas on a wounded zebra. In one incident, it was reported that the driver had survived the crash but died in the stampede of looters. The attackers have shown little or no concern for bystanders. The South African government has issued an advisory to all motorists to avoid using the highways at night, when the majority of the attacks occur. The situation has gotten to the point that it is having a serious effect on the entire nation. We often talk, in hypothetical terms, of what would happen if the trucks stopped running in this country even briefly. Could you imagine what would happen if they could only move safely in full daylight? South Af- See Lane on p28 m
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