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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Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban won’t work
December 15, 2011
As if hearing the plethora of truck drivers' objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the ...
Modest proposal: ‘Ban truck driving’
December 9, 2011
The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nation's tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, ...
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts third; ‘Trucker bombs’ a misnomer, police say
May 2, 2011
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts in third
A Penske Logistics-sponsored IndyCar, driven by Ryan Briscoe, made a position 4 start and no. 3 finish yesterday in the Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300, presented ...
‘Who’s inefficient?’ Four wheels or 18?
December 10, 2010
So asks New Cumberland, Pa., resident and owner-operator Tom Bowers in a letter to the editor published in the Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News, in response to a letter from another area ...
Fair or foul? Self-examination via the four-wheeler perspective
December 8, 2010
We've brought it up from time to time here, no doubt -- no secret that the large majority of on-highway accidents involving large trucks follow an initial mistake made by ...
‘No Zone’ redux
July 28, 2010
Speaking of the "No Zone" trailers I mentioned in my post from yesterday, about Con-way Truckload driver Toby Bogard's new Semi Aware book, I encountered this one (pictured) at the ...
Latest in distractions: One word, three letters, rhymes with ‘text’
May 26, 2010
Earlier this week, as Kansas became the 26th state to enact a behind-the-wheel anti-texting law applicable to all drivers, the folks at hands-free headset-maker Jabra released results of a survey/study conducted in ...
Cranking up the new year — queue everbody’s favorite Sammy Hagar tune, will you?
January 6, 2010
With unfortunate toll hikes in New York, haulers got another late Christmas gift with the new year in the implementation of an Illinois state law that raised maximum interstate speed ...
