Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have called for the Confederate flag to be eliminated from Maryland license plates and state-issued property, as Kelly-Ann Brown writes for the Howard University News Service in an article that appeared in Frost Illustrated. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas [...]
For the past decades upon decades of road construction, architects have designed highway projects and contractors have built them. According to the Sun Herald, federal agencies have been required to contract separately for design and building since the 1930s, and states have followed suit. Unfortunately, this system has its faults. If, [...]
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is considering legislation that would require U.S. auto regulators to include collision-avoidance system information in new car safety ratings. U.S. Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., proposed “The Safety Through Informed Consumers Act” (S.1535) on June 10, along with U.S. [...]
Should the Age Requirement for a CDL be lowered? There has been a fair amount of discussion in recent months about different things that could be done to curb the subtle decline in truck drivers in the United States. While there are still millions who are choosing this profession as their [...]
The main objective of a fuel card is to enable trucking fleets greater control over their spending while giving the drivers flexibility on the road. A fleet card can be used for variety of business related expenses but the scope of this article will focus strictly on the fuel, as it [...]
Recently a broker from New York was arrested and facing criminal charges for defrauding close to 100 victims with a monetary loss of about $600,000. With deceptive tactics and under a guise of cost effective automobile transport services the fraudster obtained customer's banking information and generated fraudulent and unauthorized withdrawals. To understand how [...]
When you sign a contract to ship a car it is typically full of fine print and legalese that often no one reads and even fewer people understand. Even reviewing our own orders terms got me thinking that maybe if customers shipping their cars better understood what they are signing it would [...]
If you have ever shipped a personal car you are probably well aware about the scheduling difficulties that come up. Auto transport companies make multiple pick ups and drops and the schedule is subject to change with even the slightest problem. When it comes to shipping around the holidays do the following [...]
When that Railroad crossing gate goes down before you, do you ever wonder what all of those containers in the train are carrying? Would you be surprised to know that cars are only a small percentage of rail-cargo transport in America? In 2014, trains only shipped 1.2% of cars according to [...]
