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12/07/09 Ellis Trucking, Inc needs to hire a Driver
 Driver Wanted !!! These are minimum operator qualification standards subject to DOT requirements, and the Landstar Carrier Group may impose more stringent requirements at its option. However, at no time will anyone reduce these minimum standards or make exceptions for less qualified prospective operators.
- 23 years of age or older.
- Class A CDL with HazMat (H) endorsement.
- One (1) year of verifiable over-the-road driving within the past two years or (3) three years verifiable experience in the last 10 years, of which six months must be within the previous 12 months, with a Class "A" CDL using the type of equipment similar to what you will be operating at Landstar.
- No more than three (3) moving violations within the past three (3) years, with no excessive speeding (15+) within the last three (3) years.
- No at fault DOT recordable accident(s) within the past 24 months.
- No felony convictions, no DUI, DWI .
- No reckless driving, careless driving, and no suspension of drivers license over thiry (30) days .
- Must be able to speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to offical inquiries and to make entries on reports and records.
- No prior positive tests from any drug and/or alcohol testing performed by applicant's previous employers or lease carriers.
Drivers Pay .32 per Mile Loaded and Empty average 2500 - 3000 miles per week IF YOU HAVE AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF DRIVING EXPERIENCE AND A VERY GOOD DRIVING RECORD, PLEASE click here to contact us
12/07/09 Canada to Drop Default WLL Ratings for Unmarked Cargo Tiedowns Effective Jan. 1, 2010, Canada will no longer recognize unmarked and unrated cargo securement devices. Like the U.S., Canada had historically accepted unmarked and unrated cargo tiedown devices, and granted them the rating values described in table 393.108 (Default Working Load Limits) of the North American Cargo Securement regulations. As of New Year's Day, unrated and unmarked tiedown devices will be zero-rated in Canada. Canada will be conducting educational enforcement for a 12-month period, and issuing only warnings -- except to those drivers who have been caught more than once." In order to get the ascribed rating for the tiedown device, a label with the manufacturer's information and the rated Working Load Limit (WLL) of the complete tiedown assembly must be affixed to the device and be legible. Each of the components of a tiedown assembly does not have to be marked and rated if a rating is provided for the complete assembly. In the absence of a labeled WLL for a complete tiedown assembly, the WLL for the assembly would be based on the lowest WLL that appears on any of its components. In the absence of any rating, the device will be zero-rated. Since enforcement in the U.S. will continue to rate unmarked tiedown devices at the default WLL, some confusion could arise from determining Aggregate Working Load Limits (AWLL) in cross-border operations. When calculating AWLL for a group of tiedown devices, each device used contributes to the AWLL. For example, four 4-in. synthetic webbed straps labeled with a WLL of 5,400 lb would sum to 21,600 lb. The AWLL would be 50 percent of that, or 10,800 lb. However, if the rating on one of those straps could not be identified, it would be zero rated, resulting in an AWLL of only 8,100 lb. The result in Canada could be some cargo deemed improperly secured. Applied Examples
Marked 4-in. synthetic webbed strap: 5,400 lb WLL (acceptable in US and Canada)
Unmarked 4-in. synthetic webbed strap: 4,000 lb WLL (default WLL rating US)
Unmarked 4-in. synthetic webbed strap: 0 lb WLL (Canada) Marked 5/16 Grade 70 transport chain: 4,700 lb WLL (acceptable in US and Canada)
Unmarked 5/16 chain: 1,900 lb WLL (deemed Grade 30, default WLL rating US)
Unmarked 5/16 chain: 0 lb WLL (Canada) 12-05-07 Pundt Appointed Vice President Corporate Business Development; O'Malley Appointed President of Landstar Carrier Group | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Landstar System, Inc., (Nasdaq: LSTR) a safety-first non-asset based provider of transportation capacity and logistics services, announced today that effective January 2, 2008, Jeff Pundt will succeed Ron Stanley as Vice President of Corporate Business Development for all of Landstar and Pat O'Malley has been named President of the Landstar Carrier Group. Stanley announced his plans to retire in early 2008. "Ron has played an integral part in Landstar's success over the years first as President of Landstar Express America, then as Chief Operating Officer, and more recently as Vice President of Corporate Business Development. We wish him the best," said Landstar President and CEO Henry Gerkens. "Jeff is a proven leader and has done a fantastic job of leading the Landstar Carrier Group over the past three years. As Vice President of Corporate Business Development, Jeff will play an integral part in growing Landstar's revenue." Pat O'Malley joined Landstar in 1985 as an Operations Coordinator and has held various positions throughout his career including Director of Fleet Management, Landstar Vice President of Safety and most recently Executive Vice President of Operations for the Landstar Carrier Group. "Pat's extensive experience working with all of Landstar's constituents in the areas of operations and safety make him an ideal candidate for this position. I am confident he will do an excellent job leading the Carrier Group into 2008 and beyond." About Landstar: Landstar System, Inc. delivers safe, specialized transportation services to a broad range of customers worldwide. The Company identifies and fulfills shippers' needs through the coordination of individual businesses comprised of independent sales agents and third-party transportation capacity providers. Landstar's carrier group, which is comprised of Landstar Gemini, Inc., Landstar Inway, Inc., Landstar Ligon, Inc., Landstar Ranger, Inc. and Landstar Carrier Services, Inc., delivers excellence in complete over-the-road transportation services. Landstar's global logistics group, which is comprised of Landstar Global Logistics, Inc. and its subsidiary Landstar Express America, Inc., provides international and domestic multimodal (over-the-road, air, ocean and rail) transportation, expedited, contract logistics and warehousing services. All Landstar operating companies are certified to ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standards. Landstar System, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Its common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market(R) under the symbol LSTR. SOURCE Landstar System, Inc. |
Oct. 25, 2007 We have a Dedicated route Available for class A CDL driver in Cookeville, Tn July 10, 2007 SPECIAL REPORT: Start date of cross-border program up in the air Tuesday, July 10, 2007 – Despite a recent report published in the Washington Times, there is just too much going on right now to estimate a start date for the cross-border program, according to DOT officials.
There has been a wide range of launch dates published attributed to both sources within the Department of Transportation and Mexican officials.
At one time, July 15 had been the target. Other media sources reported being told by DOT staffers that the DOT hoped to launch the program in August. Reports in a Mexican publication announced it as being the last week in August.
The most recent target date was in a Washington Times article. According to the July 7 news story, DOT officials now say they’re waiting for a congressionally mandated audit to be completed and are now hoping to get the program going by the end of the year.
But, that’s not what a spokeswoman with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told Land Line Magazine Tuesday afternoon.
Melissa Mazzella DeLaney with FMCSA ran down the laundry list of mandates handed down by Congress in supplemental appropriations legislation recently signed into law.
She touched on the Federal Register notices to be published, comments to be reviewed and, most importantly, the mandated review of the program by the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General.
“We also have to wait on the inspector general’s audit. The inspector general is an independent arm of the DOT, as such, we have no hand in this process. We cannot estimate or mandate a completion date for this audit,” she said.
Depending on what the OIG audit reveals, the process may entail even more steps for the Department of Transportation before the program can get off the ground.
“As you can see, a quote-unquote 'target date' is all but impossible given all those variables,” Delaney said. “There are too many balls in the air to say the program is going to start on this date. We certainly hope to commence this program by the end of the year.”
On June 19, the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General initiated an audit of the DOT’s compliance with Section 350(a) of the 2002 transportation appropriations act. Section 6901 of the war supplemental appropriations act mandated completion of an audit before a cross-border program begins.
The inspector general previously signed off on eight provisions of Section 350. Then-Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta certified compliance with the remaining provisions in Section 350 in 2002, as required.
With the passage of the supplemental appropriations act this past month, Congress opted to strengthen the requirements of Section 350 by requiring the inspector general to verify compliance with each of the requirements of the subsection.
The DOT has not fared so well in the inspector general’s previous audits. While the IG did sign off on the mandated eight provisions, the inspector general was critical of the compliance of DOT with other provisions of Section 350.
Among the provisions under review in the audit are compliance with hours-of-service regulations, compliance with U.S. drug and alcohol testing procedures, electronic verification of Mexican CDLs and many more.
The most recent audit into Section 350 conducted in 2005 took the OIG more than six months before the final report was issued. If DOT complies fully with Section 6901 of the supplemental appropriations act, the opening of the border would be on hold until the audit is complete and the OIG has completely signed off on the program.
DOT officials told the Times that only 34 Mexican carriers have been pre-approved to cross the border with 157 trucks total.
Those numbers apparently indicate that one more motor carrier, with two more trucks had passed the pre-authority safety audit since the June 8 notice published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the Federal Register.
– By Jami Jones, senior editor
jami_jones@landlinemag.com this news was posted from OOIDA news site. Announcements dedicated route available @ Ellis Trucking, Inc. July 10,2007 | |
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