More than 70 percent of truck drivers today own smartphones, tablets and wireless subscriptions. This widespread connectivity among drivers as well as office employees creates many opportunities for transportation companies to mobilize their information systems.
In September, the entire office staff of Sweetland Transport left Michigan to attend a networking event in Nashville. While they were gone, paychecks still had to be filled, loads dispatched, and communication lines kept open with customers and drivers.
A new poll being touted by highway safety groups and the Teamsters Union shows Americans “overwhelmingly†oppose legislation that would roll back some of last year’s changes to the hours-of-service rule, but trucking industry representatives call the results “misleading†and “harmful.â€
As public concern over a second U.S. health care worker’s contraction of Ebola grows and media coverage intensifies, the Department of Transportation has issued guidance on the transport of Ebola-tainted waste.
Navistar-International has filed a motion requesting consolidation of the more than two dozen lawsuits brought against it over alleged problems with its EGR-only engine line, along with the 21 other similar lawsuits the company is expecting to come.
A major revision of the way the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rates trucking companies has hit the “front office†for a final round of review by the agency’s top leadership, FMCSA Chief Safety Officer Jack Van Steenburg told industry
FedEx Freight drivers in Croydon, Pa. have become the first U.S. FedEx drivers to join the Teamsters union, by a 26-18 vote on Oct. 14.  FedEx’s less-than-truckload segment said it is considering an appeal and other options following the outcome. Last week, city and road drivers at its Cinnaminson, N.J., service center voted against joining […]
The annual Operation Safe Driver program of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance in collaboration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and industry kicks off Sunday, Oct. 19, nationwide.  The program, created to “help to combat the number of deaths resulting from crashes involving large trucks, buses and cars,†was first held in the year […]
The freight sector was relatively flat in
 September, with a drop in North American shipment 
volume and a slight increase in total freight
 expenditures, or payments, according to the latest Cass Freight Index.  Other freight indicators have shown that shipment weights have been rising steadily, so a decrease in the actual number of shipments does not
