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january 1, 2014 |
It’s 2014 and while most people are taking a look back at the top news stories of 2013, we decided to take a look back at the top news stories of 1914.
Here they are, in no particular order:
The 1st traffic light is installed (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland, OH)
The Panama Canal opens
The Federal Trade Commission is formed to regulate interstate commerce
The US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line for Model T Fords
In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place
The world's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
The 1st successful blood transfusion is performed in Brussels
The US Congress establishes Mother's Day
World War I begins
Now, try to imagine what will make the list when they are looking back in the year 2114!
Happy New Year!
Truckload Turnover Ticks Down in Third Quarter
According to the latest edition of American Trucking Associations’ Trucking Activity Report, the annualized driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets dipped two percentage points to 97% in the third quarter of 2013.
“Despite this dip, the market for experienced, qualified drivers remains exceptionally tight,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “I expect, as the economy continues to pick up, we’ll see that market get even tighter.”
Turnover at truckload fleets with less than $30 million in annual revenue dropped eight points to 74%, its lowest level since the first quarter of 2012. Turnover at less-than-truckload fleets jumped seven percentage points to 13% in the quarter – the highest level since the first quarter of this year.
“Between increasing demand for freight services and regulatory pressures, I expect fleets to remain challenged finding enough qualified drivers and we’ll be contending with driver shortage-related issues for the foreseeable future,” Costello said.
Latest Forum Topics
Women in Trucking
Canadian Forum
Executive Q&A: Ellen Voie advocates for women in the trucking industry
(The Wisconsin State Journal)
Ellen Voie has been in the trucking industry for more than 30 years, but she’s not a driver.
Instead, she’s helping female drivers, dispatchers, trucking firm owners and others grow their careers in a male-dominated industry. In 2007, Voie, (pronounced voy-yah) founded the Women in Trucking Association to “encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the trucking industry.”
An estimated 180,000 to 200,000 female truck drivers are employed in the U.S., which accounts for about 5 percent of the truck-driving workforce.
Voie and her organization work with trucking companies to help them target women for jobs, guide manufacturers to design seats in trucks that are better suited for a woman and encourage truck stops to add products and services for women.
Voie learned how to read tariffs and audit freight builds in 1979 while working at a Stevens Point steel-fabricating plant.
A few years later, after she married a trucker and started a family, she and her husband had a fleet of three trucks, and she worked as a freelancer for trucking companies in central Wisconsin making sure their fleets and drivers were in compliance.
Voie created the Women in Trucking Foundation, which provides scholarships to those who want to get into the trucking industry, and in 2012 was honored at the White House as a Champion of Change, which recognizes leaders who have developed innovative transportation programs.
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Here are the results of the TruckDriver.com Christmas Budget Survey.
How much of your Christmas budget will be spent online?
100% - I'll buy all my gifts online - 7%
75-99% - I'll buy most of my gifts online - 18%
50% - I'll buy about half my gifts online - 9%
25-49% I'll buy less than half my gifts online - 10%
1-24% - I'll only buy a couple of things online - 28%
0% - I'm headed to the mall right now - 28%
Even though these results may not show it, we still think this Internet thing is going to catch on!
The TruckDriver.com Resolution Survey is next. How did you do?
As always, keep on truckin’ and please drive safely.
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