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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Flying high, running low: Friday Channel 19 news round-up
February 3, 2012
Big birds to fly by truckWriting on the New York Times blog yesterday, Matthew L. Wald delivered a little unexpected news about a flock of young whooping cranes currently settled ...
Downtime pursuits: More road music from Tennessee
February 1, 2012
Tony Justice moving down the roadFirst up, Allen Smith over at AsktheTrucker.com reports Tony Justice (featured in the blog here and here and last month in Truckers News) will be ...
What you may not know about the EOBR bill
January 31, 2012
Since I reported on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's attempts to gain new regulatory authority over interstate drivers relative to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program's now-internal Driver Safety ...
‘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 ...
‘Monkey gouger’ Jimmy Ardis beats the odds to 4 million safe miles
January 26, 2012
Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis of Sumter, S.C., leased to Moultrie, Ga.-based Sapp Trucking, learned to drive "in a 1971 International 4070 cabover with a 250 Cummins in it," he says, running ...
Trucking fruit in Obama’s energy, manufacturing messages
January 25, 2012
If you missed last night's State of the Union address, the President followed in predecessors' footsteps by detailing a veritable laundry list of election-year policy initiatives with no small measure ...
Divine intervention at its best: A truck accident in Guam
January 23, 2012
What happens when a loaded straight dump loses its brakes on a downhill run and collides head-on with a tanker truck loaded with jet fuel? Not what you might expect. ...
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 ...
