August 11, 2014: Pay & the driver shortage; Brockway remembered; state DOTs coming up short

Here’s a list of the top trucking-related news now trending on the Internet:

• A New York Times columns analyzes why trucking is hurting for drivers and how low pay exacerbates the problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/upshot/the-trucking-industry-needs-more-drivers-it-should-try-paying-more.html?_r=0

• Getting a view of the driver shortage from New Jersey: http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/trucker-shortage-grows-1.1065136

• These trucking executives in Arkansas think raising driver pay could help ease the current shortage: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/100199/trucking-firms-raise-pay-to-keep-moving

• This truck looks a lot tougher on the big screen than in real life, apparently: http://www.usatoday.com/story/driveon/2014/08/10/titus-truck--into-the-storm/13795859/

• A local event highlights the history of the now long-vanished Brockway truck model: http://www.ithaca.com/news/brockway-trucks-roll-into-town/article_217b0590-1f3c-11e4-9b41-0019bb2963f4.html

• European trucks hauling food face a Russian border ban: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-08/putin-makes-baltics-pay-as-food-trucks-halted-at-border

• A profile of Indianapolis-based 3PL Spot Freight: http://www.indystar.com/story/money/companies/2014/08/10/indianapolis-based-spot-freight-tracks-rapid-growth/13805593/

• Washington State says a major funding shortfall remains both a near- and long-term threat: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/aug/11/funding-shortfall-straining-transportation-system/

• Analyzing why Missouri’s transportation sales tax proposal failed at the ballot box: http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/transportation-tax-may-have-been-doomed-being-placed-august-ballot

• This article says eliminating free parking is the best way to boost public transit use: http://www.care2.com/causes/want-people-to-take-public-transportation-to-work-dont-provide-free-parking.html