alliances
Lift truck manufacturer Hyster-Yale Group has entered into an
agreement with Rico Manufacturing, a maker of engineered
material handling equipment, to become the exclusive distributor of Rico’s Pegasus Elite Counterbalance lift truck line. … To
bolster its sales and service presence in the North Central region,
Kion North America Corp. has appointed Wichita, Kan.-based
Lift Parts Service to its material handling equipment sales and
service dealer network. … FourKites has partnered with software
developer Revenova to extend its real-time tracking capabilities
to users of Revenova TMS, a CRM (customer relationship manage-ment)-powered transportation management system. … Hunt A
Killer, a company that offers a monthly subscription box service
that allows people to solve intricate fictional murder mysteries,
has selected the Snapfulfil cloud warehouse management system to power its new fulfillment center. … Logistics software
developer Descartes Systems Group has been certified to submit
commercial import data for the Canada Border Services Agency’s
Single Window Initiative, the primary system through which the
Canadian government will track, control, and process information related to the importation of goods into the country. …
Geodis, part of SCNF Logistics, has chosen Amber Road’s Export
On-Demand solution to screen third-party trade partners to
ensure compliance with global sanctions and embargo lists. …
Fleet management solutions specialist Omnitracs has announced
that freight broker and third-party logistics service provider
C.H. Robinson is committed to long-term use of the Omnitracs
Virtual Load View (VLV) application to increase overall efficiency and provide continued visibility into load tracking. … Locus
Software Ltd., the developer of the Odyssey enterprise shipping
solution for ocean carriers, has joined Inttra’s electronic transaction platform. … Hapag-Lloyd has become the first ocean carrier in the United Kingdom to offer Avantida’s reUse container
management services. The application allows for the re-use of
import containers for export shipments transported by the same
shipping company. … Logistically, a developer of cloud-based
transportation management solutions, has integrated SMC3’s
Rate Ware XL and CarrierConnect XL APIs (application programming interfaces) into its transportation management system,
Logistically TMS. … Paragon Software Systems Inc., a provider of
in-vehicle routing and scheduling optimization solutions, says it
has enabled Toronto-based catering and event planning business
Marigolds & Onions to meet time-critical windows for delivering
fresh food for corporate, social, and major sporting and charity
events. … Integrated oil and gas company BP (formerly British
Petroleum) has renewed its license agreement with software
developer Aspen Technology Inc. for aspenONE Manufacturing
and Supply Chain, a suite of process operations and supply chain
software. … KLX Inc.’s Aerospace Solutions Group has selected
Vargo, a systems integrator and warehouse execution software
specialist, to design the company’s distribution hub at its new
global headquarters in Miami.
vice president, in a statement. OOIDA also
raised concerns about the equipment’s
vulnerability to hackers and other forms of
cyber-mischief.
The rules exempt operators of trucks
built before the year 2000, drivers operating not more than eight days out of every
30-day period, and drivers with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) operating in
interstate commerce within 100 air miles
of their work location, among other criteria. Last month, however, FMCSA granted five-year exemptions to Atlanta-based
UPS Inc., the nation’s largest transportation company, covering specific types of
company operations. YRC Worldwide Inc.,
a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier based
in Overland Park, Kan., has also requested
an exemption covering similar scenarios. FMCSA has already granted a 90-day
ELD exemption to haulers of agricultural
commodities.
In a related development, the FMCSA said
that drivers found without ELDs between
Dec. 18, 2017, and April 1, 2018, would
not have the violation count against their
Compliance, Safety, and Accountability
(CSA) scores. CSA measures a driver’s safety
performance across a variety of metrics,
and infractions affecting a CSA score play
a critical role in determining a driver’s marketability as well as the cost of a carrier’s
insurance coverage.
FMCSA and the Commercial Vehicle
Safety Alliance (CVSA), the latter being a
group of U.S. state and provincial Canadian
law-enforcement officials charged with
roadside safety inspections, agreed to the
policy, according to a published report.
FMCSA and CVSA have already said they
would not place a vehicle and driver out
of service between Dec. 18 and April 1
simply because the truck lacks an ELD or
other type of electronic on-board logging
device. Both actions are part of an effort
to make the transition to the controversial
mandate as easy as possible for the trucking community.
Estimates vary widely, but it is believed
that as many as 40 percent of all drivers, the vast majority being owner-operators, are currently not compliant with the
regulations.
