Reefer, van spot market demand remain high in the last week over much of the country
Last week, the national average reefer rate hit its highest mark in three years at $2.40 per mile, and the market has looked more like June than November.
PMTC’s Young Leaders Group to hold meeting in December
MILTON, Ont. — The Young Leaders Group (YLG) of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC) is holding a breakfast meeting on December 14. The meeting, to be held in Guelph will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude by…
Penske Truck Leasing rolls out new mobile app
READING, Pa. — Penske Truck Leasing released the Penske Driver app that provides truck drivers with easy Hours of Service (HOS) functionality to meet the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, and other productivity tools. The new app is free to…
TST unveils color display for TPMS product line
CUMMING, Ga. — Truck System Technologies has introduced a new Full Color Wide Screen Display to its tire pressure monitoring systems product line. The new display monitors PSI and tire temperature, and can be used with all existing 507 sensors.…
Mack Museum Displays Fancy Fruehauf Van
The 32-foot insulated van, built in 1950 like its companion Mack LFT tractor, “has all the interior and floor required to make it a refrigerated trailer by adding a cooling unit,” an informational placard says.
Ryder Expands Use of Natural Gas
Clean Energy will open a station in Georgetown to fuel the trucks that are expected to consume approximately 380,000 gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs) of liquified natural gas each year.
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Surges 9.9% Year over Year
The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 3.3% in October, following a 1.9% decline during September.
Ten Tesla Takeaways: Part I
The Tesla Semi launch in California last week answered many questions while leaving others hanging in the air. Here five things we learned after the truck’s debut, and five lingering questions Tesla needs to answer.
OOIDA Seeks to Exempt ‘Small-Business Truckers’ from ELD Rule
With the new electronic logging device mandate set to take effect in less than four weeks, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to issue a temporary but lengthy exemption to the new safety rule for “small-business truckers.”
Truck stops offering Thanksgiving meals to truckers
The Boise Stage Stop in Boise, Idaho is offering truckers free turkey dinner with trimmings on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23. Nearby in Wyoming, the Cowboy Cafe in Lyman is hosting a free turkey dinner Nov. 22 for truckers.