Trucking adds 5,300 jobs in January
Payroll employment in for-hire trucking is up by 51,500, or 4 percent, from January 2011.02.03.12
| Paccar, Navistar and Volvo have deferred shipments of Class 8 vehicles equipped with the faulty part. 02.03.12
| Two years ago, the American Trucking Associations and others filed suit against the state board’s low carbon fuel standard. 02.03.12
| Five texting and cell phone use violations will now contribute the highest (10 points) weighted severity to carriers’ numerical rankings. 02.01.12
| California Air Resources Board had issued a public letter to Navistar saying the company's emissions credits for the engine will expire Feb. ...
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‘Courtesy not necessarily contagious’: UPS driver after 50 accident-free years
January 30, 2012
Ohio resident and UPS driver Ron "Big Dog" Sowder (pictured) started his career with UPS in 1962 after serving in the Navy and answering an employment ad. On January 25, ...
Operator to train in CNN’s Fit Nation program this year
January 28, 2012
“I was on my way back to Texas and didn’t have a webcam," says Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller about the circumstances in which he filmed what has become ...
‘Leave Tony alone’ — An owner-operator on the truck stop tiger
January 27, 2012
Animal rights advocates are a vocal bunch, as I've found out over the course of the last several years. Write word one about Tony, the tiger at the Tiger Truck ...
New blog from Women in Trucking
January 22, 2012
The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) recently launched an online forum at womenintruckingblog.com, to add a more interactive blog to their long-extant online presence at womenintrucking.org.
“Drivers are some of the ...
Make accident victims pay for traffic tie-ups?
January 19, 2012
A letter writer to the Chattanoogan newspaper last week proposed to fine drivers of large trucks involved in accidents per hour of required cleanup or per mile of backed up ...
Tony the Truck Stop Tiger: Legal limbo
January 15, 2012
There have been so many back-and-forth motions in the battle over the fate of the Siberian/Bengal tiger, Tony (pictured), at the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., it would ...
Rich Wilson’s ‘state of the industry’; and MCSAC apnea update
January 13, 2012
You're likely to remember Rich Wilson (pictured), former owner-operator and current regulatory manager with the Trans Products/Trans Services company, for his part in the Truck Driver Social Media Convention last ...
Enter winter trucking photo competition, win cash
January 12, 2012
While Truckers News' monthly photo contests have gone on hiatus, the folks at job placement organization Truckers America have picked up the torch and are offering a cash incentive for ...
Identical trucking twins in National Geographic this month
January 9, 2012
Part of a feature story in this month's National Geographic on various aspects of identical twin siblings features in its lead a couple of trucking twins near the lead. Dave ...
Intent v. interpretation: Questions raised by new hours rule
January 6, 2012
The intent is not living up to the interpretation of language in the hours of service final rule, Rich Wilson of Trans Products / Trans Services told me this morning.
Just ...
