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WTI was founded in 1989 under the name Welborn Transportation by owners, Stephen Rumsey and Miller Welborn whose fleet of 12 flatbed owner operators hauled freight throughout the Southeast. [2] In December 1997, Boyd Bros. Transportation merged with Welborn Transportation and later changed the Welborn name to WTI Transport, Inc. [ 3 ]
Land Line Magazine is an American nationally distributed business publication written for professional truckers operating trucks and semi-trailers in for-hire transportation of exempt and regulated commodities. It is the official publication of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
In the years since 2005, groups such as Public Citizen Litigation Group, Parents Against Tired Truckers (PATT), Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH, which has merged with PATT), and the American Trucking Associations (ATA), have been working to change the HOS again.
In August, Tennessee fined CoreCivic $15 million for contract failures, but this week, the Tennessee Department of Correction requested a $6.8 million increase in its annual budget to go toward ...
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The company has capitalized on budgetary strains across the country as governments embrace privatization in pursuit of cost savings. Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s juvenile delinquents are today committed to private facilities, according to the most recent federal data from 2011, up from about 33 percent twelve years earlier.
The company operated 16,200 units (12,300 tractors by company drivers and 3,900 owner-operator tractors), a fleet of 48,600 trailers, and 4,500 intermodal containers from 35 terminals in the United States and Mexico, generating just over $2.5 billion in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2009. [18]
As road closures are expected to last for months, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is warning people to avoid roads between East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.