New app from Ryder aims to help with fleet management
MIAMI, Fla. – Ryder System is expanding its offerings to increase its investment in the digital space. The truck rental and leasing company announced this week the launch of RyderGyde, a smartphone app with tools to help drivers and fleets…
April Trailer Sales Beat Industry Estimates
The trailer industry sold just shy of 24,000 units in April of this year.
Winter trials
Quebec’s LCV winter demonstration program trucks on and off
C.R. England Announces Largest Driver Pay Raise in its History
A new, multi-million-dollar pay raise affecting approximately 60% of the fleets OTR drivers will go into effect on May 31, 2018.
Pilot Flying J offering free mid-trip inspections for Roadcheck preparation
Mid-trip inspections focus on checking the tires and brakes of trucks, and also include the inspection of windshields, exhaust, lights and more. PFJ is offering the free inspections at its PFJ Truck Care centers through June 7. Roadcheck is scheduled f…
Trailcon breaks ground on new Edmonton facility
EDMONTON, Alta. – Trailcon Leasing has broken ground on its new 20,000-square-foot facility just outside Edmonton, Alta. Announced in January, a ground-breaking ceremony was held May 24 at the six-acre site at 11690 Bevington Road where the new buildin…
Trucker Arian Taylor to be honored with 2018 Harriet Tubman Award from Truckers Against Trafficking
Ballard Trucking driver Arian Taylor from Nicholasville, Ky., has been named the 2018 Harriet Tubman award winner by Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) for helping a woman escape from an attempt to forcibly sex-traffick her.
UPS partners with Kenworth on SuperTruck II program
Funded by the Vehicle Technologies Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the $8 million SuperTruck program requires truck-makers and their partners to push the limits of Class 8 truck aerodynamics, engine and powertrain efficiencies.
DHL expects tech-based logistics service to cut truck transit times
DHL has launched “DHL SmarTrucking” in India, which the company claims will substantially increase the emerging market economy’s over-the-road supply chain efficiency. Photo credit: DHL.
As India accelerates up reform measures to eliminate t…
Jason Coil’s 1990 Kenworth K100E
The COE sports a 3406B Cat with a 15-speed and 3:70 rears and sits on a 237-inch wheelbase. The orange and cream paint job is custom, and Coil says the truck has been redone inside and out.