USA Trucking Jobs News And Information

During conversations with trucking executives earlier in the year, most expressed cautious optimism that the outlook for the year would improve slightly during the second half. Now that we’ve arrived, however, it’s difficult to gauge whether the sector has turned the corner.

Rising fuel costs are the single issue to blame and worse yet, it doesn’t look likely to dissipate anytime soon.

“It’s creating an incredible impact on customers’ transportation budgets,” says John Hickerson, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Office, FFE Transportation Services and President, American Eagle Lines and FFE Logistics (www.ffex.net). “There’s no denying it’s real. Our customers stop at the fuel pump on their way home and they experience it.”

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ACS Expedited Solutions Celebrates 20 Years in Business

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: March 17, 2008 — Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) announced that ACS Expedited Solutions, provider of TripPak SERVICES™ and ACS MultiMedia Advertising, proudly marks 20 years of providing successful business solutions to the transportation industry.   Since its inception in 1989, ACS Expedited Solutions has impacted the marketplace by improving processes and improving cash flow for more than 1000 carriers.

“We are in the solutions business,” said Kelley Walkup, vice president and general manager of ACS Expedited Solutions. “Through our proactive approach to the changing needs of the transportation industry, we have been able to provide our clients with an evolving business process, advanced desktop technologies, and improved cash flow.  As long as we continue to put our customers first and develop comprehensive solutions, we will continue to be successful.”
 
ACS Expedited Solutions provides technology to advance the way the transportation industry does business.  One of their most recognized solutions is TripPak EXPRESS®, known as “the industry standard for document delivery.”  The recently introduced TripPak ENTERPRISE™ is ACS’ most sophisticated workflow system to date, featuring complete content management.

“Cash flow is the life’s blood of any company and companies are very protective of [their] revenue streams,” said Patrick E. Quinn,  Co-Chairman of U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. “There is natural hesitancy to place an important part of that stream into the hands of a third party. You have to build a partnering relationship and have the ultimate level of trust in that organization’s ability.  We have that kind of trust in TripPak.”
From TripPak SERVICES™, the recognized leader in transportation business process improvement and outsourced IT solutions, to ACS Multimedia Advertising, the advertising agency of choice for the transportation industry, the company has delivered a variety of successful products and services to the marketplace for the past 20 years. 

The company operates three offices in three cities: Denver, Colorado; Nashville, Tennessee and Wilmington, Ohio, and employs more than 100 associates.  
ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with 62,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The company’s Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “ACS.” Learn more about ACS at http://www.acs-inc.com.
For more information about ACS Expedited Solutions, TripPak SERVICES™ and ACS MultiMedia Advertising, visit www.acsexpeditedsolutions.com.

Empty Nesters are finding new lives in the trucking industry. Business men and women who have been the victim of corporate downsizing are finding new lives in the trucking industry. Even airline pilots who are tired of the stress of crowded airways are finding new lives in the trucking industry.

With new training, high tech trucks, better dispatch and more home time, employment as a professional over the road truck driver is looking better and better. Long haul trucking is changing and many of the major trucking companies are placing their hope in these changes to attract more and more new drivers. Stability is the name of the game and trucking companies want drivers that will stay and in return they are providing drivers with top of the line equipment, training and an overall better lifestyle.

For more information on becoming an over the road truck driver visit TexasTruckingInfo.com

AZCentral.com has an excellent article on how the face of the trucking industry is changing and what today’s trucking companies are doing to attract drivers.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports today that trucks will be banned from the fast lane of the Florida turnpike starting February 1, 2008.  The ban will be enforced on a 40 mile stretch from the Lantana toll plaza near Lake Worth to the Golden Glades interchange in Miami-Dade County.  Commuters have been complaining about trucks getting in the way and slowing commute times on the busy highway. Truck drivers say the ban is going to create even more problems.

Visit the South Florida Sun-Sentinel to read the entire story.