Airman Products' new Automated Landing Gear Deployment and Retraction Technology, with the flip of a switch, eliminates the manual cranking required to raise and lower a trailer’s landing gear, reducing driver exposure to a variety of musculoskeletal injuries.
February 26, 2020
Schneider, in collaboration with Women In Trucking and driver/trainer Kellylynn McLaughlin, is working to raise the number of women in the nation’s driver pool while supporting professional truck drivers.
February 10, 2020
After surgery to remove a brain tumor left a truck driver unable to work, the St. Christopher's Trucker Relief Fund stepped in to help with bills. This year's volunteer board president is pushing to step up the organization's fundraising.
February 7, 2020
Samsara's enhanced workflow integration will help dispatchers monitor tractor location and driver hours of service, directly manage dispatch operations, communicate directly with drivers, and track trailer assets with real-time GPS.
February 6, 2020
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February is American Heart Health month, and heart disease remains the leading cause of death in America.
February 5, 2020
The new podcast from Heavy Duty Trucking’s editorial team, HDT Talks Trucking, delves into two hot issues in episodes three and four of its debut season: drug testing of truck drivers, and digging into some of the practical concerns of how carriers can add electric trucks to their fleets.
February 4, 2020
Transport Pro has announced a new e-signature tool to make it easier for brokers to share electronic rate confirmations with carriers.
February 4, 2020
It’s a chilly January morning, but things are heating up around the kitchen table at Mark Murrell and Jane Jazrawy’s Newmarket home, where scoring is underway for the Best Fleets to Drive For program.
February 4, 2020
The Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge announced the 2020 Best Fleets to Drive For, a group of 20 for-hire trucking companies from across North America.
January 30, 2020
AscendTMS and TruckParkhave signed an agreement to allow truck parking reservations to be made directly inside the AscendTMS software platform by fleet dispatchers.
January 29, 2020
The new entry-level driver training rule, originally scheduled to go into effect Feb. 7, now will have to wait another two years because the government needs more time to finish the registry of approved training providers.
January 29, 2020
Bumper to bumper traffic, changing weather, and overzealous fellow drivers can make the everyday commute feel like quite a challenging endeavor. Over-the-road drivers deal with all the pesky problems many of us deal with, but on a much larger scale.
January 29, 2020
Roehl Transport is now able to enhance Practical Route Mileage pay with address-to-address mileage calculations.
January 17, 2020
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will launch a study of factors that contribute to highway crashes involving large trucks. Driving the study is concern over the rising number of fatalities incurred in truck crashes.
January 15, 2020
Trucking companies using owner-operators in California can breathe a sigh of relief for now, as a judge has extended a temporary restraining order keeping officials from enforcing the onerous terms of its AB5 independent contractor law against motor carriers.
January 13, 2020