* Indiana - Busy delivery season forces companies to lease extra trucks
Lafayette,IND,USA -WLFI, by Jamie Long -December 16, 2014: -- When you receive packages on your doorstep this holiday season, you might see the driver behind the wheel of an unfamiliar truck... According to United Parcel Service public relations director Susan Rosenberg, in order to keep up with the busy delivery season, UPS leases trucks from other companies. In the Lafayette area, many UPS workers are driving trucks from U-Haul... Even though some UPS drivers won’t be driving the brown truck, the drivers are still wearing the brown UPS uniform... According to Rosenberg, UPS delivers more than 500 million packages in the month of December...
* Georgia - Electric delivery trucks headed to UPS to get 18 Workhorse E-100 All Electric Walk-In Vans
Atlanta,GA,USA -Green Energy News -17 Dec 2014: -- The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) and the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) are excited to announce an award of project funding to UPS , in partnership with AMP Holding Inc., to deploy 18 Workhorse E-100 All Electric Walk-In Vans with 100 kWh battery packs in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area. The goal for this project is to demonstrate the capability of all-electric delivery vehicles to perform at the same level of operation as similarly sized diesel delivery vehicles, while also significantly reducing vehicle emissions and petroleum consumption...
* Alberta / Canada - Truckers to face steeper fines for leaving truck routes
(Calgary plans to hike its fine for truckers who drive off designated truck routes to $500, up from $100)
Calgary,ALB,CAN -The Calgary Herald, by Jason Markusoff -December 14, 2014:
-- Calgary is set to hike its fine for truckers who drive off designated truck routes to $500, after the industry officials and police agreed that drivers are shrugging off the current $100 penalty... City hall restricts truck traffic to a series of major Calgary roads, to keep heavy vehicles off quieter collector and residential streets... The report states that police, the trucking sector and city lawyers all agree that the proposed fine increase would decrease off-route driving. The $500 penalty is more closely in line with other fines for commercial vehicles...Labels: trucking industry news USA and CAN
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