Truckers Need Fuel The time has come for meaningful and open discussion about refining capacity. The trucking industry is the largest consumer of diesel fuel in Canada. Total annual consumption of truck diesel fuel by tractor-trailer units alone comes
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The upcoming presidential election provides a choice between two very different candidates for highest office in the United States. While we here at uShip are non-partisan, we've decided to present you with a handy voting guide for John McCain and Barack
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The upcoming presidential election provides a choice between two very different candidates for highest office in the United States. While we here at uShip are non-partisan, we've decided to present you with a handy voting guide for John McCain and Barack
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On September 12 of this year, a Los Angeles commuter train and a freight train collided, killing 25 people and injuring several more; this was the worst rail accident in modern California history. High profile accidents such as this usually lead to increased
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The upcoming presidential election provides a choice between two very different candidates for highest office in the United States. While we here at uShip are non-partisan, we've decided to present you with a handy voting guide for John McCain and Barack
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The upcoming presidential election provides a choice between two very different candidates for highest office in the United States. While we here at uShip are non-partisan, we've decided to present you with a handy voting guide for John McCain and Barack
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Students have a drive for trucking “For good truck drivers, there have always been jobs,” Bue said. “I started in 1968 — never had to worry about getting a job. Since 1993, there’s been a growing and growing shortage of truck drivers. There’s plenty of
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Here at uShip we are continually developing new partnerships to help auction and online buyers arrange transport for their purchases and to provide new sources of loads for uShip service providers. It’s been a while since I’ve given an update on the uShip
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Finding direction in the seemingly endless blogosphere can be intimidating and frustrating. While there are numerous great sites to explore, that number is nearly overwhelmed by the hordes of unkempt, useless, and completely distracting urls who jam up
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Women in Trucking, Inc. “I always knew that when it was time to choose a career I would drive a truck,” she said. But Courtney, does more than just drive a truck, she has become one of the first professional drivers to win a state truck driving championship
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We know that fuel prices have been a popular issue on the uShip blog recently, as well as in casual conversation in general, but the recent recession and seemingly hourly changes in fuel prices merit a revisiting of the issue. In Texas the average price
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Halloween is just around the corner and here at uShip we've decided to share some of the more interesting stories we've come across that have happened on the road. Have you own? Share it in the comments. You’re alone in your truck driving from one side
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Freight Transport Will Grow 7.9% Annually Until 2012 (in Romania) Road haulage will surge ahead by an annual average of 9.5%. Inland waterway traffic will rise by an annual average of 6.0% as bottlenecks are removed from the Danube. The news on everyone’s
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Although power laws sound like legislation regulating energy policy, it actually refers to situations “ where large events are rare, but small ones quite common .” Links online , word frequency, wealth, and even popularity on the blogging website LiveJournal
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Since its launch in 2006, the uShip Shipping Price Estimator (SPE) has been an important contributor to uShip’s growth. Combining actual proprietary match data from thousands of customers and service providers, the SPE allows prospective customers to get a general sense of how much an item will cost to ship on uShip without actually having to create a listing in the uShip marketplace.
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At uShip we greatly appreciate the Service Providers who help keep everything running smoothly. Whether they are delivering a family heirloom across the country or reuniting a family with a beloved pet, we understand that our job would be impossible without
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Challenges Trucking Industry to Approach Environmental Stewardship with Renewed Vigor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., staunch environmental activist and law school professor, challenged members of the trucking industry today to make environmental
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Most of us have seen a tower of shipping containers at least once in our life. Throughout the US there are over 700,000 abandoned shipping containers. As the US moves away from being a manufacturing economy, we receive many more of these containers than
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We have made an important change to the uShip User Agreement . It is now uShip policy that members may not request payment from other members via instant cash transfer services (non-bank, point-to-point cash transfer services such as Western Union and
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