Employees at the Freightliner's Sterling truck plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, voted against union representation by the Canadian Auto Workers last week
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Truckers hauling out of the port of Savannah, Ga., plan today to park their trucks and line the highway outside the main gate of the port in protest against the long delays at the port
Read More →A trucker's group that was instrumental in last spring's convoy of several hundred trucks on Washington, D.C., to protest high fuel prices is planning another convoy and rally for early November. The National Owner Operator Trucking Assn., formerly a regional group in New Jersey, is planning to take at least two convoys to the nation's capital the week before the presidential election
Read More →Network Associates, Lynn Haven, Fla., operators of the Carrierdepot.com web site, are offering free access to their online truckload rating system through Nov. 3
Read More →The State of Maryland recently opened its first truck overheight detector system. It's located at a truck weigh and inspection station along Interstate 70, west of Baltimore
Read More →Vancouver-based PartsSystems has launched PartsSystems.com, a web site where owner-operators can purchase name-brand truck parts online at discounts comparable to fleet pricing
Read More →Contract Freighters, a truckload carrier based in Joplin, Mo., recently announced the promotion of Kevin McKelvy to the position of Vice President – Recruiting
Read More →The Senate yesterday approved an appropriations bill for the Environmental Protection Agency without including language that would have postponed the EPA's new diesel emissions regulations
Read More →Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney visited with truckers in a truckstop in Ohio yesterday, learning about their worries about fuel prices and other issues as part of his "Greatest Generation" bus tour. According to published reports, Cheney nibbled on apple pie and coffee as he shared a table with truckers at the Petro Travel Center about 15 miles south of Bowling Green
Read More →Transportation.com, Overland Park, Kan., an Internet transportation marketplace, has announced partnership agreements with Volvo Trucks North America and Volvo Commercial Finance LLC The Americas
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