Despite a drop in trucking jobs in May, employment in the for-hire trucking segment is up greatly from earlier levels, with about 40,000 jobs being added in the past 12 months and around 152,000 added from three years ago.
The recent rescue of two children who had been abducted and were the subject of an Amber Alert in Southern New England was due in part to a driver with A. duie Pyle.
Volvo Trucks announced Thursday it plans to begin limited production in 2015 of dimethyl ether (DME) powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles. It's teaming up with Safeway and Oberon Fuels for a test funded with $500,000 from California's San Joaguin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
AMS Automotive has appointed Pat Biermann as executive vice president and general manager of the company’s newly established Heavy Duty Group.
If the trip along Interstate 5 in Washington state hasn’t been frustrating enough with a detour resulting the collapse of a bridge last month, it’s only going to get worse starting Friday evening.
A group of trucking companies released research indicating that the federal insurance requirement for the industry is too low, but others such as ATA and OOIDA disagree. The Trucking Alliance, a group of seven carriers that lobby for safety legislation on Capitol Hill, found that the dollar settlements in some cases were far above the $750,000 minimum federal insurance requirement.
Improving trucking's image is the focus of an upcoming webinar from the Truckload Carriers Association on June 13.
The webinar will focus on pride and respect, two of the key factors that are in a fleet's ability to recruit and retain drivers, shape an operating environment and mitigate litigation.
New research shows that freight rail rates have skyrocketed over the past decade following dramatic consolidation in the railroad industry.