On February 24, PBS’ Nightly Business Report examined the state of trucking and the impact of rising fuel prices, featuring ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello
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Nightly Business Report on Trucking and Fuel Prices
Tough Challenges for Fleets
Today’s trucking industry is a key element of the immense distribution system that supports the U.S. economy and our citizens’ present standard of living. However, the continued rough economic climate has caused countless bankruptcies, massive layoffs, and reduced trucking volumes. As a result, trucking companies must look for new and creative ways to master two major business challenges that impact a fleet’s bottom line: ongoing expense control and government regulations compliance.
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Duration : 0:3:28
Many trucking companies are looking for drivers. Is that a sign that the economy is improving?
Tonn Ostergard sees signs of the economy improving. A lot of companies are looking to hire drivers. Why should you join Crete?
Duration : 0:2:31
Dan Rather Reports – Mind Your Loan Business – Part 4/4
The recession has made retraining workers a growth industry. Vocational schools are booming — especially trucking schools. Last year federal workforce programs trained over 13,000 new truckers. By official counts, these programs have stellar graduation rates and job placement, but our investigation reveals the untold story. For part three in our series on the trucking industry, we meet dozens of trucker trainees who say that instead of new skills and opportunities, their schooling steered them into financial ruin. Also, for the most part, investors go into the stock market knowing the risks – they know that if their investments drop in value, they have to live with the losses. But not all financial losses are a natural part of the ups and downs of the stock market, some investors are taken advantage of or even conned by their brokers. We take a look at a securities arbitration clinic, staffed by law students, which is devoted to helping small investors who’ve lost money due to their broker.
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Duration : 0:9:36
Dan Rather Reports – Mind Your Loan Business – Part 3/4
The recession has made retraining workers a growth industry. Vocational schools are booming — especially trucking schools. Last year federal workforce programs trained over 13,000 new truckers. By official counts, these programs have stellar graduation rates and job placement, but our investigation reveals the untold story. For part three in our series on the trucking industry, we meet dozens of trucker trainees who say that instead of new skills and opportunities, their schooling steered them into financial ruin. Also, for the most part, investors go into the stock market knowing the risks – they know that if their investments drop in value, they have to live with the losses. But not all financial losses are a natural part of the ups and downs of the stock market, some investors are taken advantage of or even conned by their brokers. We take a look at a securities arbitration clinic, staffed by law students, which is devoted to helping small investors who’ve lost money due to their broker.
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Duration : 0:14:59
Dan Rather Reports – Mind Your Loan Business – Part 2/4
The recession has made retraining workers a growth industry. Vocational schools are booming — especially trucking schools. Last year federal workforce programs trained over 13,000 new truckers. By official counts, these programs have stellar graduation rates and job placement, but our investigation reveals the untold story. For part three in our series on the trucking industry, we meet dozens of trucker trainees who say that instead of new skills and opportunities, their schooling steered them into financial ruin. Also, for the most part, investors go into the stock market knowing the risks – they know that if their investments drop in value, they have to live with the losses. But not all financial losses are a natural part of the ups and downs of the stock market, some investors are taken advantage of or even conned by their brokers. We take a look at a securities arbitration clinic, staffed by law students, which is devoted to helping small investors who’ve lost money due to their broker.
Under the “Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976″, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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Duration : 0:14:59
Dan Rather Reports – Mind Your Loan Business – Part 1/4
The recession has made retraining workers a growth industry. Vocational schools are booming — especially trucking schools. Last year federal workforce programs trained over 13,000 new truckers. By official counts, these programs have stellar graduation rates and job placement, but our investigation reveals the untold story. For part three in our series on the trucking industry, we meet dozens of trucker trainees who say that instead of new skills and opportunities, their schooling steered them into financial ruin. Also, for the most part, investors go into the stock market knowing the risks – they know that if their investments drop in value, they have to live with the losses. But not all financial losses are a natural part of the ups and downs of the stock market, some investors are taken advantage of or even conned by their brokers. We take a look at a securities arbitration clinic, staffed by law students, which is devoted to helping small investors who’ve lost money due to their broker.
Under the “Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976″, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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Duration : 0:14:57
News Update: Another Bailout?! – http://www.brownbailout.com
Why does a company that brings in so much money need a bailout from Congress?
http://www.brownbailout.com UPS lobbyists have buried a short 230-word legislative bailout deep inside the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 currently before Congress. It’s worth billions to “Big Brown” at the expense of today’s American economy that thrives on next-day commerce, competitive shipping options and ready access to markets around the world.
Read more here: http://www.brownbailout.com/buried-bailout/
What’s in a bailout?
The bailout bottom-line is this: What’s the difference between a 100-year-old trucking company and a modern airline that flies packages around the world every night? Answer: everything. Yes, both carry parcels and packages, but how they do it is obviously and vastly different.
UPS’ bailout would shoehorn FedEx Express — an airline created in 1971 focused on next-day delivery of essential goods and documents around the world — into the same operating rules as a 100-year-old trucking company. FedEx Express and other airlines operate just fine under airline regulations, but UPS doesn’t like competition. Keep in mind, UPS chose to form as a separate trucking company for its pickup and delivery operations.
So “Big Brown” is throwing around its political weight and seeking a bailout from Congress, so that it can saddle its only remaining U.S. competitor with the effects of its own decisions. And at the end of the day, all of us who rely on overnight-deliveries — medicines, paychecks, critical replacement parts, essential inventory, and the like — pay the cost.
Duration : 0:2:36
Bailout with UPS
Why does a company that brings in so much money need a bailout from Congress?
http://www.brownbailout.com UPS lobbyists have buried a short 230-word legislative bailout deep inside the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 currently before Congress. It’s worth billions to “Big Brown” at the expense of today’s American economy that thrives on next-day commerce, competitive shipping options and ready access to markets around the world.
Read more here: http://www.brownbailout.com/buried-bailout/
What’s in a bailout?
The bailout bottom-line is this: What’s the difference between a 100-year-old trucking company and a modern airline that flies packages around the world every night? Answer: everything. Yes, both carry parcels and packages, but how they do it is obviously and vastly different.
UPS’ bailout would shoehorn FedEx Express — an airline created in 1971 focused on next-day delivery of essential goods and documents around the world — into the same operating rules as a 100-year-old trucking company. FedEx Express and other airlines operate just fine under airline regulations, but UPS doesn’t like competition. Keep in mind, UPS chose to form as a separate trucking company for its pickup and delivery operations.
So “Big Brown” is throwing around its political weight and seeking a bailout from Congress, so that it can saddle its only remaining U.S. competitor with the effects of its own decisions. And at the end of the day, all of us who rely on overnight-deliveries — medicines, paychecks, critical replacement parts, essential inventory, and the like — pay the cost.
Duration : 0:1:13
Dan Rather Reports – Mind Your Loan Business
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Duration : 0:54:30
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