Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, if you’re one of an estimated 76,000 owners who lives or operates in California with a pre-2010 emissions-spec engine, your ability to operate in the state will be in jeopardy. Nearly 10 years ago, the California Air Resources Board’s Truck and Bus Regulation banned the use of all trucks powered by 2006 […]
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh this week joined Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Yellow Corp. (CCJ Top 250, No. 5), and union members to announce the expansion of the Yellow’s 17th Commercial Driver’s License Driving Academy in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The expansion comes in response to the Biden-Harris administration’s 90-Day Trucking Apprenticeship Challenge to get more […]
Mobile application Trucker Path has released a new personalized dispatch service for drivers that is expected to create less office work and more revenue hauling loads. Trucker Path Dispatch features load sourcing and negotiation, finding profitable loads by gathering driver preferences and sharing them with their personal dispatcher armed with Artificial Intelligence tools and millions […]
Hiring military veterans as truck drivers can do more for a fleet than just fill empty seats. That was the message from veteran advocacy groups and fleets during a session last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Dave Harrison, Executive Director of Work Force for Fastport, outlined the benefits to fleets of […]
FMCSA removes x-ray exam from definition of ‘medical treatment’ The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has revised its regulatory guidance concerning the use of the term “medical treatment” for the purpose of accident reporting. The revised guidance explains that an x-ray examination is a diagnostic procedure and should no longer be considered “medical treatment” […]
Checking a weather forecast for home is pretty easy, but when you’re clocking 500-plus miles per day across multiple states it’s not uncommon to run into some weather-related surprises. Just last week a storm system dropped multiple tornadoes across Texas and Louisiana before pushing north and eastward, placing almost 70 million people across the Southeast […]
Under bright, sunny skies Wednesday in Texas, Navistar hosted its official ribbon cutting for its San Antonio Manufacturing Plant, a state-of-the-art facility that’s designed to cut production costs while pursuing the company’s long-term goals to go green in terms of EV manufacturing and plant operations. The nearly 1 million-square-foot manufacturing facility includes a body shop, […]
Join us for the first annual AHAA Open at The Golf Club of Georgia, June 14, 2022. Our Presenting Sponsor for the tournament is Bill Fralic Insurance Services AHAA Chairman Barry Williams invites you to join your friends and business colleagues for fun on the links in Alpharetta, Georgia. Many of you may remember The Golf Club of […]
Trucking companies are no doubt feeling the effects of diesel prices surging by more than $1 per gallon over the last two weeks, which took fuel prices to a record high of $5.25 per gallon nationwide during the week ending March 14. While many fleets have likely been preparing for such a situation due to the increase […]
