Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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April 2015 | Overdrive | 17 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY. FREE! 6oz. Bottle of Howes Fuel Enhancer when you buy one gallon of Howes Oil Enhancer or Howes Fuel Enhancer. For details call: 1-800 GET HOWES or visit www.howeslube.com Offer ends: 9/30/15. We couldn't be more excited about introducing our newest addition – the Howes Enhancer Line. Formulated with performance in mind, these new products are designed to extend the life of your vehicle by preventing excessive wear, improving engine power, and ensuring peak performance and efficiency. For use in gas and diesel vehicles, these products are all warranty-safe and include a 200% money-back guarantee. For over 90 years Howes Lubricator has had your back and we promise to continue that tradition for generations to come. And that's a family promise you can count on. A FINAL RULE mandating the use of electronic logging devic- es was accelerated by the U.S. Department of Transportation to Sept. 30, six weeks earlier than DOT projected in February. The rule will be enforced two years following publication in the Federal Register. DRIVERS STILL ARE NEEDED by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to participate in a study on the 2013 hours of ser- vice rule changes. VTTI said it needs 250 drivers, all of whom could be compensated up to $2,000. Researchers will study schedules, crashes, fatigue and other factors. Go to restartstudy.com. HAIR SAMPLES could be used by trucking companies to satisfy federal drug testing requirements rather than urine samples, according to a bill introduced last month in both chambers of Congress. THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY plans to hire 50,000 veterans over four years through the Operation Heroes to Highways program of the Truckload Carri- ers Association, in partnership with Hiring Our Heroes and FastPort. A THIRD of truckers who died in 2012 crashes had skipped seatbelts, and up to 40 percent of those likely would have lived if they had buckled up, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 700 truckers died in crashes and 26,000 were injured in 2012. HOWES LUBRICATOR PROD- UCTS teamed with Sage Truck Driving Schools for the Howes Truckers of Tomorrow $1,000 Scholarship Program. The scholarship can be used at any of 25 Sage schools. Applications are available at www. sageschools.com and www.howeslube.com. THE AVERAGE VALUE loss per cargo theft incident rose 36 percent in 2014 to $232,924 compared to 2013, while the number of reported thefts in 2014 dropped 12 percent to 794, according to cargo theft prevention firm FreightWatch. CargoNet reported that about $90 million in cargo was stolen in 2014, with nearly half of that being high-value electronics loads, which averaged $549,539 in stolen goods per theft incident.