HARLEY DAVIDSON ANNOUNCES NEW LOGISTICS COMPANY

Though Harley Davidson has announced that Florida-based Comprehensive Logistics will replace their current Logistics company Syncreon, the roughly 600 employees who had handled third-party logistics for Syncreon in New York will remain in their jobs nonetheless. Paul Forberg, Comprehensive Logistics’ vice president of sales and marketing, claims: “we expect to transition 100% of them… I would say it’s more of an administrative function just to get them converted over to Comprehensive Logistics.”    Read more…

NO HOURS OF EXEMPTION FOR LIVESTOCK TRUCK DRIVERS

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has “rejected a petition from several agriculture groups asking for more Hours of Service flexibility for drivers hauling livestock and other animal goods.”  The petition had asked for the FMCSA to allow truck drivers “hauling livestock, insects, and aquatic animals, after 10 consecutive hours off duty, to drive through the 16th consecutive hour after coming on duty, and to drive a total of 15 hours during that 16-hour period.”  Read more…

EVEN MOMS LOVE TO BE TRUCK DRIVERS

Challenging stereotypes, Clarissa Ranking, a 36-year-old mom from Charlotte, North Carolina, is a professional truck driver transporting all kinds of goods across the East Coast. From hauling diapers to TVs to canned goods, Clarissa is making $144K a year while loving her job. Ranking exclaims: “people always have this image in their mind of a truck driver being a man with a big old stomach, big old beard and wearing overalls… I love to get that expression on people’s faces like, ‘Can you really drive that?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, I got this honey.’”  Read more…