With another year coming to a close, we look back with some relief that freight demand showed steady growth despite endless obstacles coming from Washington, D.C. As we detail throughout this issue, most economic indicators remained ...
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Europe inched a step closer towards enforcing a single, universal mobile phone charger yesterday when a provisional deal was made between members of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. The details of the deal ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will propose revised rule language and open another comment period on?two of the proposed rules affecting farmers under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FDA plans to ...
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Canadian carriers are getting different requirements from one shipper to another for exactly the same food products because there’s no uniformity in preventive control plans (PCPs) for transportation. Food safety and transportation ...
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Shuttleworth has automated the scheduling process where as jobs are created, amended or deleted, they are automatically prioritised according to rules. While 'Due Date' is often used to prioritise the sequence of jobs, this does not take ...
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The upcoming years will be tough for the transportation industry in the United States, FedEx Freight president and CEO William Logue said at the annual National Industrial Transportation League conference in Houston. Logue praised the ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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Today, leaders ofAmerican Trucking Associations again called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and ccc to swiftly address the mounting problems caused by changes to the hours-of-service rules. "From the outset, ATA was ...
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A survey of more than 4,000 truck drivers in the US has provided further evidence that the new US hours-of-service rules are costing the industry financially, and could even be negatively impacting road safety. The Owner-Operator ...
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Just how much are the new hours-of-service rules implemented in the US last summer hurting the trucking industry? The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released results from an analysis that found more than 80% of ...
Drivers are more tired. They’re making less money. The carriers they drive for are less productive and they need more drivers to haul the same amount of freight. That, according to a new survey, is all a result of the changes to the ...
November 11, it is the online shopping day for China.It was gorgeous closed with 35 billion yuan in this day for Tianmao mall.It show the new marketing in the science and technology era.The developing internet realized the people to know ...
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Most staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have been vaccinated against influenza, hospital officials say. The results come about nine weeks into a campaign to have employees vaccinated against influenza, ...
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Fifty-two percent of U.S. adults say they are against prohibiting restaurants from using trans fats in food, a survey indicates. The nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 30 to Nov. 6 among 996 U.S. adults, found 44 ...
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China has put in place application criteria for 2014 molybdenum, tin, and indium export quotas, according to information posted on the Ministry of Commerce website Monday. For moly, companies that have been allotted export quotas for 2013 ...
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