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Star gazing

Shelley Uvanile-Hesch hopes her new truck inspires women across the continent

Landstar agents’ meeting honors partners

Landstar System presented safety officer and customer of the year awards this month during the owner-operator-heavy fleet’s annual agent convention in Boca Raton, Fla..

Recruiting and retention in the era of new technologies

According to the mainstream narrative, automation may be the answer to everything from the driver shortage to how we’ll attract younger people into an industry with an aging workforce. From Elon Musk predicting that semi-autonomous vehicles will roam t…

RWIT sponsors second Lady Trucker Cruise

The organization Real Women In Trucking holds its second annual “Queen of the Road on the High Seas” Lady Trucker Cruise next month. The seven-day cruise of the western Caribbean aboard the Carnival Dream departs the Port of New Orleans May 20 and retu…

Reefer Sales & Service named Dealer of the Year

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Reefer Sales & Service has been named Carrier Transicold’s 2017 North American Dealer of the Year. The dealer has 130 employees and supports Ontario’s refrigerated transport industry. It recently consolidated several operations int…

Driver works to get more women behind the wheel

As a newly named member of Canada’s first all-female trucking image team, company driver Susie De Ridder has one goal: recruit more women into the industry. De Ridder, who drives for Armour Transportation Systems, found out she’d been accep…

Is paid parking just a cost of doing business?

Truck parking is, let’s face it, a pain. Often a large one. Anti-ELD folks say parking is getting worse, if not impossible, because of the mandated electronics. This She Says column by Linda Caffee, which originally appeared on the Freightliner T…