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Christmas trees roll out of the Pacific Northwest: Thanksgiving-eve van freight update
Look for a rates rebound this coming week in major markets on the East Coast, DAT says, as despite improved demand metrics, rates fell there while holding steady at $1.70 per mile last week
November 25, 2015
Business
Dear cities and states, āFinish the mess youāve madeā already!
Navigating high construction season on the road: āAfter sustaining what Iām certain is irreversible kidney damage, a deviated septum, and three chipped teeth, I finally gave up on making across aliveā¦ā
September 18, 2015
Parking
Gearing up for MATS
[youtube qY1LlwJxiFU nolink] Truck show season kicks off in March, and itās all Iām hearing about these days. Apparently, MATS is going to be one heck of a show ā weāve heard from all kinds of people about all kinds of neat stuff thatās going to happen there. Iām going to be brutally honest and [ā¦]
February 1, 2015
Voices
FMCSA to host MATS driver-training listening session
The session will take place Friday, March 22, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room C101 at the Louisville convention center. No registration is required. Webcast details are forthcoming.
February 11, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler
Keith Reddenās retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. āI said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,ā he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floydās Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to [ā¦]
July 16, 2012
Channel 19
A salute to women truckers at MATS
Women in Trucking honored 67 women who had driven one million accident free miles, 36 who had reached two million safe driving miles, fifteen with three million mile records and seven women who had attained four million safe driving miles during their careers at MATS in 2012.
March 28, 2012
Channel 19
Stories from MATS: Perkins on a heavy haul
Perkins Specialized Transportation has launched the biggest series of hauls in itsĀ history.Ā The Northfield, Minn.-based company specializes in super loads ā the biggest,Ā longest, heaviest cargo allowed on the nationās highways. Over 40 years theĀ firm has grown from a dozen workers and trucks to 65 employees and 22Ā heavy-haul rigs. It hauls everything from steam turbines and [ā¦]
March 23, 2012
Channel 19
Latest distraction: Hauler takes on-highway health to new heights
Some truck drivers in Germany are on a health kick perhaps more extreme than that of their U.S. counterparts. Near the western city of Munster, the website of Germanyās English-language daily the Local reported, a hauler was spotted on the autobahn weaving as he overtook vehicles ahead. As police gave chase, the unmistakable glint of [ā¦]
March 25, 2011
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Another Hours session set
Truckers visiting the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville on March 26 will have a chance to attend a fifth listening session on hours-of-service regulations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold the session from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Center, South Wing Room B101. Registering the day of the listening [ā¦]
March 23, 2010
Channel 19
Beating the Dutch ā women truckers fire at Guinness World Record
Iād bet you didnāt know it, but the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of female truck drivers was set by an all-woman truck convoy held in 2004 in the Netherlands. At least so say the folks trying to beat it at the Mid-America Trucking Show next week. As reported on several blogs and [ā¦]
March 19, 2010
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