Another Step Forward For Alternate Energy Trucks?

Is This A Giant Leap In Alternate Energy Trucks and Car Haulers....Or Just Another Small Step?

In Fleetowner magazine Ecodual corporation has the EPA approval to put dual fuel systems in 29 different Cummins engines. Ecodual also has plans to release dual fuel systems for Paccar, Detroit Diesel, and Caterpillar engines

Sounds exciting. Is this the giant leap we have been waiting for that moves alternate energy as a majority play in the heavy duty truck market. One of the key signs of a product going mass market is when it begins to get distributed on a mass scale, thus its move into multiple types of engines.

I am not totally sold that this is that moment. I have not heard a lot of buzz about these conversion kits and how they are doing, both in getting people to buy them and then their performance on the road. Hopefully the next 12 to 24 months will give us that answer.

http://fleetowner.com/running-green/dual-fuel-system-provider-receives-ok-cummins-engines



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Trucker Shortage Could Be Solved..

A rash of trucker shortage articles has hit the news lately..again...for the second, third, fourth time etc.  They say the same thing:

• There are not enough truckers to fill the positions
• Companies are looking
• The training programs are not training enough to fill them
• The trucker fleet is aging
• The government is forcing lots of drivers out
• Many younger candidates and employees do not want to be on the road for weeks at a time
• What do we do? 

This is a bunch of hogwash.

24 karat hogwash

It is very simple what happens in just about EVERY other industry when people won't take a job

the wages go up.....way up...way way up.

So now "Joe" high school realizes he can earn 70,000, 80,000, 90,000 in a relatively short time..and the time on the road trucking doesn't seem that bad. As wages go up,  the 'negatives' of a job become much more bearable

And in capitalism, when lots of people take a job with high wages, the wages stabilize..problem solved

Socialism offers stale suppressed wages with no incentives...

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http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20121031/BIZ/710319849/1005
http://www2.wjtv.com/news/2012/oct/31/trucker-shortage-ar-4862072/
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The Car Hauler Business In The Age Of The Driver Shortage

I am beginning to sound like a broken record. The driver shortage is a problem, not just for the car hauler industry but for all of trucking. On the car hauler side, it is inevitable there will probably be delays in shipping cars if there are not enough drivers to ship them. That is, of course, unless your willing to pay more for drivers.

This is the dilemma. The government wants drivers:

• who are healthier
• who are high performers
• who are safe
• who have good track records
• who are professional
• who only work a given number of hours
• who spend thousands more for emissions friendly vehicles

And I say that is great..but what are you going to do to get enough drivers on the road to replace those who have flunked out or left the industry.

This is the question with some possible scenarios

1. Driver pay COULD get outrageously high
2. The price of goods could skyrocket
3. People will have to pick up their own goods
4. Goods just wont sell or get moved since shipping them makes them cost prohibitive
5. A combination of the above

 The time to start thinking about the impact of this shortage is now

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=30345&t=Driver-Shortage-Requires-Industry-Action-Experts-Say

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CSA: Being Reviwed by Congress

Though being a car hauler is a small segment of the trucking industry it still deals with the ramifications of the CSA. Well there is a saying, every dog has its day. In this case, the trucking lobby has its day in front of Congress in an attempt to correct some problems with the CSA program. According to a Transport Topics article some of the deficiencies of the program are:

• Problems with the carrier data being incomplete or inaccurate in determining a carriers rank and status
• The point system for crashes also assigns blame regardless of whether the accident was preventable or not
• The CSA does not correctly portray a carriers safety record

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http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=30158&t=Trucking-Tells-Congress-CSA-Programs-Goals-Are-Admirable-But-Cites-Data-Flaws

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Hey Car Hauler...One Less Future Toll On I-95

Sometimes finding good news is not always that easy. Sometimes you have to spin and contort to get the right light shining on that silver lining. Well guess what? This is one of those times. So here we go

According to a Truckinginfo.com article I-95 is only going to put up one toll instead of two.

I can only imagine your level of excitement but this is still good news. This is the first move by ANYONE to scale back the number of tolls. Up to now it has been a feeding frenzy of states poised to toll the trucking industry into financial oblivion. Now there is a chink in their armor.

From Truckinginfo.com
http://truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=77952&news_category_id=3

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Car haulers In The Future World Of Higher Tolls

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It used to be that the word Fuel would strike fear into the heart of a car hauler or trucker. A new addition to this feared word group is coming about. That word is tolls and any car hauler knows that it is one of the most contentious cost issues being faced by car carriers on the road today. According to a Transport Topics article one state is cracking down on drivers who are trying to avoid them.

The State of Ohio is charging drivers full price if they mysteriously lose their ticket. Traditionally drivers would lose their ticket and then get issued a cheaper ticket since there was no proof of the original.

those days are over

The only problem is, it is not just the driver who is getting the ticket. The cost of this Ohio toll, and the higher New York tolls, the I-95 toll, the tolls emerging in other states...is that the cost is passed onto you and me.

So really we are paying these tolls in the form of more expensive goods. 

The question is, how expensive will things have to get before the public backlash about tolls is heard

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