Rest stops disappearing in some states
For more than half a century, old-fashioned, no-frills highway rest stops have welcomed motorists looking for a break from the road, a bathroom or a picnic table where they can eat lunch. Cash-strapped transportation agencies are shuttering the old ones to save money, or because they don’t attract enough traffic or are in such bad shape that renovating them is too costly.
Uber seen raising bar for truck freight brokerage
Uber is betting technology can help ensure that trucks utilize their full capacity.
LAS VEGAS — There’s a new “Uber for Trucking” company planning to disrupt the freight brokerage industry: Uber. Third-party logistics (3PL) executives at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) annual meeting here Thursday acknowledged the potential for Uber to…
Truckers Give Cautious Thumbs Up to New Canadian Free Trade Agreement
The spokesgroup for the industry that is often characterized as the poster boy for the lack of regulatory harmonization in Canada, says it welcomes the new Canadian Free Trade Agreement announced today in Toronto by the provincial and federal governmen…
Drug-Fueled Refuse Truck Driver Goes on Wrong-Way Rampage
A Kentucky-licensed truck driver arrested for driving the wrong way on a highway to avoid police while on drugs was declared an imminent hazard by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and ordered not to operate a commercial vehicle in inters…
Ontarians’ lives in turmoil over arbitrarily suspended driver’s licences
An unknown number of Ontario residents find their lives in turmoil after having their driver’s licences arbitrarily suspended for offences as minor as the non-payment of a single parking ticket or for going faster than a posted speed limit. Joseph Monighan of Hamilton, now retired as a long-haul trucker, believes suspension of one’s driver’s licence doesn’t always fit the crime.
CTA ‘encouraged’ by new Canadian Free Trade Agreement
TORONTO, Ont. – The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) says it is giving a cautionary thumbs up to the new Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) that was announced today and will come into action on July 1. “While we are encouraged,…
California Strikes Deal with Truckers to Hike Fuel Tax
A bill to raise fuel taxes that could bring in $5.2 billion a year has advanced through the California legislature and needs only to be signed by Gov. Jerry Brown before going into effect. The base excise tax will jump 12 cents per gallon for regular g…
Laskowski takes over as president of CTA
TORONTO, Ont. — Stephen Laskowski has officially taken over as president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA). He replaces long-time president David Bradley, who will step down at the end of this year. The previously announced transition was made official…
Truckloads launches new truck search feature
Trucker Path, creators the trip planning app for truck drivers, announced its freight marketplace Truckloads has now added a truck search feature for its users to find available carriers. Brokers that post freight on the Truckloads platform can now search for verified carriers who could be a match to haul a load based on location, equipment type, and the carrier’s safety rating.
‘Saw the story on my rest break’: Mt Ousley trucker says he was…
A woman was injured when her car connected with the back of the truck on the M1 Princes Motorway shortly after 9pm Thursday. A truck driver involved in a collision on Mount Ousley says he was unaware of the accident until he read about it on the Mercury’s website.