California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

Same day the web turns 40, Wal-Mart announces that it will sell caskets and Costco will take food stamps. Oh…. and Obama announces that the recession is officially over! I wonder if the President has been to California or is including California within these statistics.

As you may have heard, on Sunday night the Governor took action on the enrolled bills and we wanted to provide you with a brief update on CDTOA’s priority bills.

For months, Orange County Transportation Authority officials have boasted that projects funded by federal stimulus money could create as many as 3,781 local jobs.

Only 57% of Americans believe there is solid scientific evidence that the Earth's atmosphere is warming, said the poll of 1,500 people by the Pew Research Centre

That is a fall of 77% from 2007. The number of people who believe that human activity is causing global warming also fell to just 36%.

Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnists

SACRAMENTO -- Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to "kiss my gay ass"?

To all members,

we have received a variety of comments and questions concerning Reliance Trailer’s recent financial hardships; many members with Reliance trailers and bodies were worrying about Reliance warranty parts and service availability. We haven’t been contacted by Reliance Trailer yet but Superior Trailer’s owner (a CDTOA affiliate) Jay Pocock said that he can service all Reliance as well as his Superior clients. He asked me to forward this information to our members.

The single most immediate problem facing California is the deep recession that has driven unemployment to a 70-year high of 12.2 percent. We appreciate the circumstances that led Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call special sessions of the Legislature to deal with pressing water,

Credibility is power.

When you have it, it's like a rock in your fist. But despite its power, it can be as fragile as an eggshell -- handle it with care or it'll shatter into a gooey mess.

Following the heels of a far-reaching reorganization announcement last month aimed at cutting costs and growing the company, California base Granite Construction, one of the largest civil contractors in the U.S., announced on October 2nd that 150 employees, or 8 percent of its salaried work force nationwide, will lose their jobs as of October 15th.

Both truckers and brokers within the California construction trucking industry should heed this story!
Freight broker failures throughout the U.S. have skyrocketed by almost 75% in the past 12 months, as they are caught in a financial squeeze between some slower-paying shippers and the carriers who want to be paid promptly for hauling freight, industry officials said.