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Ship Cars on California's Roads and Highways
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 1 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Car haulers operating on the transport roads and highways of the beautiful American state of California looking for more information on the current transport emissions rules and regulations and the available grants and funding for transport drivers and fleets that want to get in line with the rules and regulations can smile. The California Air Resources Board is inviting you to a free one day seminar in Fresno, California on March 26 on these very subjects. A free seminar designed to help...
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Mass Layoff in Janesville
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Vehicle transport service Allied Systems Holdings Ltd., recently notified the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development of its plans of streamlining its workforce in 2010. According to The Business Journal of Milwaukee, 100 jobs provided for by the vehicle transport company will be lost upon the closure of its Janesville terminal. 100 employees will be losing their jobs end of February of 2010.
The Atlanta based vehicle transport company filed its mass layoff last week and said that their...
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GM Ups Pontiac, Saturn Discounts
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Two GM brands are winding down for sure, as Pontiac and Saturn dealers are being offered $7000 payments for cars they opt to put into rental or service fleets, taking them off the rolls. There are only 7500 new Saturns and 9500 new Pontiacs left nationwide.
As the free-standing Saturn and Pontiac dealers wind down, it will take out stops for new car haulers. However, some dealers will opt to stay open as used car dealers and others have multiple nameplates that they deal with. For instance, the...
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?Tow to Go' For New Years Drunks
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Car hauling usually doesn't make headlines unless there is some bad news, but there is one case where hauling cars makes the news in a good way, and that's on New Year's Eve. Many locales have begun to offer rides home to folks who are too drunk to drive, but that creates the problem where the car is back at the watering hole and the owner is back home. To offset that, places have set up a free tow for the car as well as a free ride for the lubed-up owner.
In the South, AAA has a Tow to Go...
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Arrow Workers Eligable for Unemployment
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Here's some good news for Arrow Trucking employees; even though they haven't officially been let go by Arrow yet, their Oklahoma based workers will be eligible for unemployment, per Workforce Oklahoma. In addition, other trucking companies are taking advantage of a lot of good drivers hitting the street at once.
One company mentioned in the KTUL piece was Waggoners Trucking; their Mike Holland is quoted as saying ?”We got some people in here that have car hauling experience behind them...
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Shipping Inoperable Vehicles
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
You may wonder if it's worthwhile to use a car carrier to move your inoperable vehicle from one place to another'or if a commercial carrier will think it's worthwhile to take on the job. The answer to both is absolutely yes! After all, you may own a classic 1949 Ford that doesn't run, but you don't want to leave it behind when you move from Houston to Dallas'and you don't want to try to tow it that far on your own.
Just let the carrier company know when you arrange the pickup that the vehicle...
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PCC, PCTC: RORO for Auto Transport Industry
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Auto transport industry uses Pure Car Carriers (PCCs) and Pure Car Truck Carriers (PCTCs), roll-on /roll-off (RORO) vessels, to export and import wheeled cargo, including railroad cars, trailers, semi-trailer trucks, trucks and automobiles. Enclosed box-like superstructure of the modern PCCs and PCTCs runs the entire breadth and length of the hull to accommodate vehicles. The vessels feature built-in foldable ramps on which the cargo can be ?rolled off' and ?rolled on' at the port. In other...
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Skipping an Intermodal Step
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
One of the downsides of producing goods in a developing country is that there often isn't good infrastructure for getting goods to market; the low costs that a company gets from the inexpensive labor are often offset by added shipping costs. An example of this flows from this piece on Indian car maker Maruti Suzuki.
To ship cars overseas from their factory, they currently have to load the cars onto car-carriers (or juggernauts, the British-English term for a big truck) for an eleven-mile trip...
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Shipping to the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction'
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction is one of the premier collector car auctions in the US. This January it will be held in Scottsdale,Az. Collectors from around the US will be shipping their collector cars to this auction. If you are in need of auto shipping, be sure your enclosed carrier has the proper cargo insurance.
Some car carriers will quote low just to get your order, however, more often than not the carrier will not have the proper cargo insurance. Collector cars going to the...
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Wyoming Transport Fees
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Car transport trucks about to enter the state of Wyoming need to know about the laws in effect that could have a detrimental affect on there ability to conduct vehicle transport in Wyoming. Especially truckers who are transporting vehicles through Wyoming for the first time will need to make sure they understand there responsibilities and make sure they pay all required fees, before transporting on the roads of Wyoming.
Truckers who expect to be coming back to Wyoming on a regular basis with a...
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Runaway Truck Warning System Installation
From Auto Transport Car Shipping Blog, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Car transport firms traveling along Maryland Highway 135 down Backbone Mountain to Bloomington will be glad to hear that the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) has installed a runaway truck warning system at the top of a ninety degree right turn that is difficult to navigate at speed. This installation of the runaway truck warning system isn’t the first move the department has taken to try to reduce the amount of tractor trailers that are ending up in the ditch as they try to...
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