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Business

Trucker helps diabetic motorist

Walden Haulers Group driver Jonathan Bennett was named a Highway Angel for helping a motorist avert a medical emergency, the Truckload Carriers Association announced. Bennett, an emergency medical technician, helped administer orange juice from his cab to a woman with diabetes in November. She had been unable to maintain proper glucose levels while she and […]

March 19, 2012

Business

National diesel price highest since 2008

The current price is the highest since Aug. 25, 2008, when it was $4.158 a gallon.

March 19, 2012

Business

Internet Truckstop designates women-owned firms

Load board service says it introduced this feature because more shippers and logistics companies have diversity expectations.

March 19, 2012

Business

DOT pegs annual road spending at $101B

Report points to a sizeable gap between current spending and projected levels of investment needed to maintain the nation’s highways.

March 19, 2012

Channel 19

What are owner-operators’ top five problems?

Readers, I’m beginning research on a story I’m preparing for Overdrive‘s June issue on which I need as much owner-operator input as is possible. It’s one that will probe the five biggest problems owner-operators face in the industry today, offering practical and forward-looking ideas/examples toward solutions to those problems. My main problem, at this point, […]

March 19, 2012

Channel 19

J.J. Keller-sponsored musher wins Iditarod

The folks at trucking-industry publisher J.J. Keller & Associates announced this morning the awesome culmination of the company’s investment in young competitive musher Dallas Seavey (pictured from the trail), who came out on top in the Iditarod Alaskan sled-dog race finish Tuesday. With the win, Seavey’s Keller-sponsored team’s performance allowed him to become the youngest […]

March 17, 2012

Business

Overdrive’s Dills wins prestigious award

Overdrive received a Jesse H. Neal Award for its in-depth coverage of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.

March 16, 2012

Business

ATA, TCA challenge hours rule

ATA questioned changes to the restart provision requiring it include two consecutive periods between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.

March 16, 2012

Channel 19

The haps at MATS: Rounding up driver-led efforts

I’ll make an attempt, at least. So much is going on at next week’s trucking show in Louisville it will be next to impossible to catch it all in this space today, but here are a few of the highlights folks have reached out to me about these last few months: Health walk-and-talk, blood driveAs […]

March 16, 2012

Business

163 citations given for unsafe driving around trucks

A sheriff’s office near Portland, Ore., made 216 traffic stops and issued 163 citations during a recent two-day exercise on I-5.

March 15, 2012

Business

Used Class 8 registrations fall

Used Class 8 registrations during the fourth quarter of 2011 were down 22 percent from a year earlier.

March 15, 2012

Business

Mack Granite movie truck set for show

Mack Granite military truck that appeared in the Transformers: Dark of the Moon movie will be at Mack booth.

March 15, 2012