The leaders of the Federal Highway Administration and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lauded trucking for its work during COVID-19 and addressed safety issues such as truck parking and advanced driver assistance systems during the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's 2020 Trucking Safety Summit.
Commercial truck drivers making their way through Arizona can now find parking space availability at any of Arizona’s rest areas on the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Arizona Traveler Information 511 website.
Trucker Tools has entered a strategic partnership with SecurSpace to provide commercial truck drivers a resource to secure both overnight and longer-term truck parking via the Trucker Tools app.
With the COVID-19 outbreak restricting the places truck drivers can go for a meal or a break, three companies have added alerts to their tech solutions to give drivers a heads up to open rest areas or truck stops.
NATSO and the American Trucking Associations are calling on state and local governments to carefully define social distancing guidelines regarding truckstops and travel plazas.
Drivewyze said drivers using its services can now find out ahead of time if an upcoming rest area is open or closed.
The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, if passed into law, would dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to projects that increase truck parking spaces so truck drivers can safely comply with hours-of-service regulations.
AscendTMS and TruckParkhave signed an agreement to allow truck parking reservations to be made directly inside the AscendTMS software platform by fleet dispatchers.
An abundance of parked, unattended trucks over holidays means a spike in cargo theft, CargoNet reports.
TruckPark has launched a mobile-accessible truck parking app to help truck drivers reserve overnight parking spots.