harvest season Archives - Maritime Shipping News

FMCSA extends protections for under-21 harvest haulers

11 October 2023

WASHINGTON — Not all truck drivers under age 21 are barred from hauling freight between states, and federal regulators are ensuring that one group of such drivers continues to do so without risk of being sidelined by law enforcement.

An association of farm-service harvest crews — who are provided an exception under the law from certain CDL qualifications, including a requirement that drivers hauling across state lines be at least 21 — asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-extends-protections-for-under-21-harvest-haulers

’Tis the season: Harvest haulers stress an already tight market

10 November 2021

At the close of every summer, the trucking industry gears up for harvest season, which traditionally contributes to a further tightening of capacity ⁠— for a couple of reasons. Owner-operators who also own farms remove their trucking capacity from the market for over a month to harvest produce and deliver it to market.

Additionally, to ensure the extra capacity needed during harvest season, brokers use a dedicated group of carriers to haul oranges, watermelons, avocados, corn, cotton or...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tis-the-season-harvest-haulers-stress-an-already-tight-market

Check Call: Flatbed is alive!

19 October 2021

Hot Takes

“Hey, can you handle these flatbed shipments for us?” A sentence usually followed by “Jaws” music in the background. In almost every organization, there is usually the “one guy” who handles all the flatbed moves.

Flatbed is weird, involves a bunch of requirements and has a very small network of drivers. In a previous life, I was “that guy” who handled the flatbed moves. We love a lowboy, with overweight, overdimensional permits, and everything in between....

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