Company drivers and owner operators may nominate their trucking companies as one of the Truckload Carriers Association's (TCA) Best Fleets to Drive For, an annual evaluation of the best employers in the trucking industry
American Trucking Associations has reached an agreement on a new three-year contract with association President and CEO Bill Graves
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plans to debate and vote on its two-year surface transportation bill Nov. 9. The committee's strategy is to produce a two-year measure funded at current levels, plus inflation. This will require about $12 billion more than will be available from the Highway Trust Fund, a difference that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., a member of EPW and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has said he believes can be found
Plans for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., hit a dead end after the Michigan Senate rejected a $5.3 billion funding bill needed get construction started
Frozen Food Express Industries will sell nearly all of the rolling stock from of its former dry van business to Celadon Trucking Services
Daimler Trucks North America has added a second shift and plans to ramp up production at its Portland Truck Manufacturing Plant in Portland, Ore., creating approximately 350 new jobs at the facility by the end of 2012
Shorepower electrified parking spaces have come to the R Place Truckstop on I-80 in Wendover Utah. Truckers using the facility can look forward to cleaner air, less noise, reduced fuel consumption and a sound night's sleep
Love's Travel Stops has opened a new travel stop in Perrysburg, Ohio. To celebrate the opening, professional drivers will receive double "I Love Rewards" loyalty points on purchases at the new location through Nov. 20
Ryder System, Inc. has been selected by UBCR, LLC as its fleet partner in a Michigan natural gas project that includes 16 heavy-duty natural gas vehicles, upgrades to two maintenance facilities, and the construction of two natural gas fueling stations
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is urging Sen. Kelly Ayotte not to proceed with her amendment to block the rewrite of the hours of service rule. In a letter yesterday, LaHood defended the work of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in drafting the revised rule
Ford says it will move production of its F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks from Mexico to the U.S. following strong ratification of a new contract by members of the United Auto Workers union.
Two U.S. trucker groups and several lawmakers stood in bipartisan opposition to cross-border trucking with Mexico at a news conference at Otay Mesa, California's busiest border crossing
The recent Third Quarter 2011 Transport Capital Partners Business Expectations Survey finds that carriers' contractor fleets have remained steady over the last three quarters. However, the ability for fleets to expand using contractors has been trending down for the last five quarters
In the face of a sluggish economy and in what is typically the weakest new order period of the year, commercial vehicle order activity strengthened in September
Polar Corp., which grew from a small welding shop in Opole, Minn., into North America's largest manufacturer of aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel tank trailers, is celebrating its 65th anniversary
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