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February 2015

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14 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | FEBRUARY 2015 JOURNAL NEWS 99.9% accuracy rate E-screening and safe bypass services Guaranteed data privacy Complete customer support Convenient, safe electronic toll pay with real-time toll data available to carriers Only3UH3DVVRIIHUV\RXUÁHHWDtotalVROXWLRQ 3UHTXDOLÀHGHVFUHHQLQJ E\SDVVVHUYLFHVDWZHLJKVWDWLRQV²DQGWROOLQJIDFLOLWLHV²DFURVVWKH86 :((1'256( www.prepass.com | 888-361-PASS t $MBTTPSEFSTin December topped 40,000 for the third consecutive month, pushing 2014's order number to its highest annual total since 2004 and the second highest ever. FTR reported December Class 8 orders totaled 43,620 and 2014 orders hit 375,000, with positive trends likely to continue in 2015. ACT Research pegged December's number at 43,900 and 2014 totals at 380,000 and said that better economic conditions for carriers spurred the year's strong growth. t .JTTPVSJ is considering legislation that would boost the state's maximum speed limit from 70 to 75 miles. H.B. 295 was intro- duced by Rep. Mike Kelley in the Missouri state house. t 5IF7JSHJOJB5FDI5SBOTQPSUBUJPO *OTUJUVUF is seeking commercial drivers with a valid Class A or B CDL to participate in studies at VTTI in Blacksburg, Va. Most participants will be compensated at a rate of $40 per hour. Go to vtti.vt.edu, email CDLdrivers@vtti.vt.edu or call 540-231-1277. t $POXBZ workers at the company's facility in Bakersfield, Calif., voted last month against joining the Teamsters Union, the fourth of the company's facilities to reject Teamsters affiliation, while three others have voted to join. The union last year took aim at both Con-way (CCJ Top 250, No. 5) and Fed-Ex Freight (No. 2). t "64%JTUSJDU$PVSU sentenced Elizabeth "Betsy" Pope to eight months of house arrest, four years of probation and $109,000 in restitution for falsifying drug test results of truck drivers. Pope would sign the drug tests with the name of a medical review officer who had not worked at her company, Eastgate Laboratory Testing, for many years. t %SBHBO4JNPWTLJoperator of Illinois-based Freedom Transportation Inc., pleaded guilty to fraud charges in a double-brokering scheme in which he, along with other co- conspirators, would negotiate contracts with companies and promise Freedom would transport the freight. Freedom had no trucks, however, and would give the loads to a broker who would find companies to transport the goods; Freedom then billed the customers as if it had performed the job. t 5IFSFTB7JODFOUowner-operator of live- stock transport company Terri's Farm in Murfreesboro, was sentenced in Nashville's federal court for violating an imminent haz- ard out-of-service order. In June 2012, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an IHO to Dorian Ayache, owner- operator of Lebanon's Three Angels Farms, for unacceptable safety practices following two accidents that resulted in the deaths of four horses. Two months later, the agency issued an IHO against Vincent and Terri's Farm after determining the company was a reincarnation of Three Angels Farms. INBRIEF 2/15

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