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November 8, 2017

November 8, 2017

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Freight Logistics

Traffic Congestion Meets Highway Expansion

Or: The Texas Two-Step. Our past two entries focused on the pitfalls of potholes, followed by the need for constant highway maintenance across the country. This week, we land much, much closer to (our) home. As we’ve proudly noted in […]

November 1, 2017

November 1, 2017

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Freight Logistics

Maintaining United States Roadways

Funding the Highway Trust Fund. Following our entry last week on the pitfalls of potholes, we expand the issue this week to highway construction and maintenance in general. Simply put: our nation’s roads provide a lifeline for passenger and commercial […]

October 25, 2017

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General

Minding Potholes

The Effect of Roads on Vehicles. Our infrastructure is a major component of what keeps the national and state economies humming. Sometimes we patch up roads, repair bridges, refortify tunnels. Sometimes we build new ones. In the short view, it’s […]

October 17, 2017

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General

Safe Distances

Driving with Mutual Respect. The most recent statistics show that, in 2015, the United States has the second largest number of passenger vehicles in the world. That’s more than 263 million cars and trucks. Of those, more than eight million […]

October 3, 2017

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Insurance

Rebuilding: Royal Purple Edition

Flooding Raceways with Vehicles. The impact of Hurricane Harvey continues to have a highly challenging ripple effect. While this is felt most prominently in Texas, other geographic areas also are experiencing the consequences. For example: an estimated one million cars […]

September 19, 2017

September 19, 2017

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Freight Logistics

One-Way Challenges

The Ripple Effect of Rebuilding. In the rental car and airline industries, one-way destinations are almost always proportionally more expensive than round-trips. Examples: A rental car for four days, with pickup from and return to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, totals […]

September 12, 2017

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Carriers

The ELD Pendulum

Swinging Back and (Mostly) Forward. We’ve been closely following the rules and regulations of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate for U.S. carriers. The FMCSA’s major goal throughout this process? Daphne Jefferson, FMCSA Deputy Administrator says, “ELDS will improve the […]