QuikQ, the provider of a cardless direct fuel connection between truck stop point-of-sale (POS) and motor carrier enterprise systems, announced that Quick Fuel is using its Fuel Purchase System (FPS) to streamline the fueling process for drivers at more than 50 automated fueling locations nationwide.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
A LIFETIME OF FUEL ECONOMY
Too often I hear that investing in technology that improves fuel economy is something only the big guys can afford. Well, Steve Kron, an owner-operator, is living proof that simply is not true.
Just recently Steve hit a lifetime fuel economy average of nine miles to the gallon. He formally started tracking his fuel economy back in 2010 when he started uses Kevin Rutherford’s Profit Gauges, but says he has always been interested in it. He started working on lowering his fuel consumption during the OPEC oil crisis in the early 1970s. At one point he realized that if he bought a good used truck with an electronically controlled engine the fuel savings would be enough to make the truck payments. “The truck was basically free,” he said.
EARNINGS WATCH: ACCURIDE LOSSES WIDEN, CUMMINS PROFIT DECLINES
Lower North American truck sales led to lower financials compared to a year ago for two Indiana-based companies.
Accuride Corp. (NYSE: ACW) said it had a net loss of $5.2 million compared to one of $600,000 a year earlier, or a loss of 10 cents per share, 4 cents more than a consensus estimate by Zacks Investment Research. It compares to a loss of 1 cent in the first quarter of 2015.
Monday, May 2, 2016
TO QUOTE FOOTBALL'S MEREDITH, PARTY MAY BE OVER ON LOW DIESEL
WASHINGTON — Back in the day when Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell manned the booth for Monday night football and it became apparent one team would best the other, Meredith would sing — or attempt to do so — the Willie Nelson penned hit song “Turn Out the Lights the Party’s Over.”21 TONS OF HAM ROASTED IN N.C. TRUCK FIRE
A tractor-trailer hauling 42,000 pounds of ham caught fire early Saturday April 30 in North Carolina.
The truck came from a Smithfield Foods plant and was driving north on N.C. Highway 87 south of Fayetteville when another trucker stopped it after noticing a fire on the trailer.
NO BUSINESS WITHOUT PEOPLE
I've realized most of my career has been about finding ways to eliminate people in the office with computers and communications, in the factory with robots and automation, and in cars and trucks with automatic driver assistance systems or autonomous vehicles. The truth, of course, is that I have not succeeded in eliminating a single person. I may have replaced a few direct laborers. But, in the process, I've created a need for more highly skilled and trained people to operate, program, and service the automation. In fact, I've worked to make the systems self-diagnosing so that a highly skilled person is not needed to maintain the equipment. That has not happened, either, with artificial intelligence or any other form of intelligence. Oh yes, there has been progress that some can measure. For others, it is not so obvious.
DOES THE DRIVER OF THE FUTURE EVEN EXIST?
Like many of you, I was born into a culture that was obsessed with the automobile.
Americans didn't invent the car. But they certainly embraced it in a way that no other nation did. For Americans of my age, cars have always been the ultimate expression of swagger, individuality and freedom.
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