The American Trucking Associations’ annual week-long event to honor truck drivers will be held Sept. 11-17. National Truck Driver Appreciation Week is coordinated each year to show the country’s 3.5 million truck drivers that carriers, shippers and the rest of the industry appreciate the job they do, ATA says.
Several new players entered the freight-matching and truck-routing app market last month at theGreat American Trucking Show, held Aug. 25-27 in Dallas, Texas. The apps perform similar to Uber’s ride-sharing idea: Shippers post loads, carriers post trucks and the system automatically matches shippers loads’ to carriers’ available capacity
The current sluggish freight environment has eased some of the trucking industry’s angst over the driver shortage, but make no mistake: Existing and future regulations and an aging workforce will bring the topic roaring back to life in the coming months and years.
Not resting on its 42.6 percent U.S. and Canadian Class 8 year-to-date market share, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled Wednesday its reimagined 2018 Freightliner Cascadia tractor
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration earlier this month denied a petition made by North American truck inspectors asking the agency to rescind the 30-minute break required by current hours of service regulations.
Navistar International Tuesday announced a strategic alliance with Volkswagen Truck & Bus,which includes an equity investment in Navistar by Volkswagen. In the near term, the alliance will focus on developing common power train systems that are set to be delivered to North American customers by 2019.
The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General recently announced court activity in two trucking-related crime investigations. Here’s a summary of what happened with each
The Medical Review Board of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration outlined this week its official recommendations to the agency on screening and disqualification criteria for truck drivers
The U.S. Department of Transportation Aug. 26 released a proposed rule that would require trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds to be equipped with speed limiting devices (also known as speed governors or speed limiters), but the regulatory
