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Trucker Buddy awards grants to 19 classrooms for school supplies
The organization that partners truck drivers with grade-school classrooms to help teach children about the trucking industry and more started the grant program in 2014. Schools are evaluated based on funding needs, as well as how the funds will be used.
April 25, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Have we hit a trucking lull? Recent indicators, analysis reveal a mixed bag
Comparisons to 2018 aside, trucking-specific indicators have been dull in recent months, signaling the definitive end to the roughly year-long up-cycle in late 2017 and into 2018.
April 24, 2019
Channel 19
Erroneous status-switch to on-duty driving, while parked — Mark Kirbyson’s latest ELD issue
In November Kirbyson began having an issue with the ELD in his 2007 Caterpillar-powered Peterbilt kicking him into on-duty driving status, while he was asleep in the bunk. “Have others experienced a similar issue?” he asks. How’d you solve it?
April 24, 2019
Business
Trucker recognized after preventing accident when student driver passed out at wheel
The student driver had been driving well, but began complaining about not feeling well. He later passed out at the wheel, and Demetrice Reeves was able to slow the truck down and pull the student out of the driver’s seat to take over and get the truck stopped safely.
April 24, 2019
Business
BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers
BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.
April 24, 2019
Business
ATRI seeking owner-op input on cost of doing business
Among the information ATRI is seeking for its annual Operational Costs of Trucking report is driver pay, fuel costs, insurance premiums and lease and purchase payments. Carriers are also asked to provide full-year 2018 cost per mile or cost per hour data.
April 24, 2019
Truck Stops
North Dakota truck stop rebranded to TA Express
The newly-rebranded truck stop in Steele, formerly the Coffee Cup Fuel Stop, offers 75 truck parking spaces, seven diesel fueling lanes, laundry facilities, three showers and more. It also offers Caribou Coffee, Pizza Hut Express and Subway restaurants.
April 24, 2019
Business
On-haul reports: Trucker found hanged in cab, driver shot and killed along I-20 in Texas
An Indiana coroner is refuting social media rumors surrounding the death of a truck driver who was found hanged in his cab in March. A California-based trucker was shot and killed along I-20 in Texas. And two truckers were busted after drugs were found in their trucks.
April 23, 2019
Voices
Colin Young presents ‘Because some of us are too good to wait’
Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedrive’s “Dashcam Central” repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the “road was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently it’s OK to pass on the shoulder if you’re behind an ambulance.”
April 23, 2019
Business
10 hydrogen-electric Kenworth T680 tractors, developed with Toyota, to start testing in California
Toyota, Kenworth, UPS, the California Air Resources Board, the Port of Los Angeles and Shell met at the Port of Los Angeles on Monday for the unveiling of the first of 10 zero-emissions Kenworth T680 test units that will haul freight in Southern California.
April 23, 2019
Channel 19
Round-up: When a negative for investors is a positive for drivers, and early look at fully-electric Mack truck
Driver pay is bringing more cost to carriers, and that’s a good thing. Take the good with the bad, though: Freight outlook for the year, judging by the past few, isn’t great. Also: Mack’s first LR all-electric refuse truck goes to NYC sanitation, brief video ahead of WasteExpo next month.
April 23, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD maker KeepTruckin lands $150 million investment, company valued at $1B
Electronic log provider KeepTruckin, who’s prominent in the owner-operator market, announced April 23 it has received $149 million in Series D investment funding, with the company valued at $1 billion. The company says it will use the latest influx to fund new hires, invest in hardware, form new partnerships and to further its work in machine learning.
April 23, 2019
Business
Allison moves toward electrification with acquisition of two companies
Allison Transmission Holdings Inc., on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Vantage Power and AxleTech’s electric vehicle (EV) systems division — two acquisitions intended to build toward truck electrification.
April 23, 2019
Business
Used truck prices slipped in March, expected to trend flat compared to 2018
Used truck prices slid across all classes and segments last month – a move which J.D. Power Valuation Services says puts the market closer to a “historically typical” range.
April 22, 2019
Custom Rigs
Michigan doubles at MATS: Chad Smith’s C&J Bark Haulers 389 glider
Smith drives this relatively new Cat-powered 2019 389 glider (just 27,000 miles on it at MATS last month), and showed with East flatbeds in a Michigan B-train set-up capable of 160,000-plus lbs. of legal weight in the Great Lakes state.
April 22, 2019
Business
Cargo theft trends shift as thieves alter approach
CargoNet reports that in the first quarter of 2019, there was a total of 140 cargo thefts, a 22 percent decrease from 2018’s first quarter. The firm also notes that the average cargo value per theft during the quarter was $145,772 for a total estimated cost of $12.8 million.
April 22, 2019
Business
Volvo recalls 11,000 trucks over sleeper bunk window issue
Volvo’s recall affects approximately 11,089 model year 2018-2020 VNL and VNX trucks configured as 740 and 760 sleeper models. Mack is also recalling approximately 43 model year 2020 Anthem and Pinnacle trucks in which the conspicuity reflectors on the back of the cab may be blocked by the exhaust system.
April 22, 2019
Business
Weight restrictions placed on I-45, I-20 ramps in Dallas
Ramps with the weight restrictions include I-45 Northbound to I-20 Westbound, I-45 Northbound to I-20 Eastbound and I-20 Westbound to I-45 Southbound. The restrictions are expected to be in place for two weeks.
April 22, 2019
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