Goodyear Seeks Nominations for Highway Hero Award
Goodyear is still looking for candidates for its annual Highway Hero Award, honoring professional truck drivers who put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Nominations for the 34th Highway Hero Award are open through Nov. 29, 2016.
Mack Offers Light-Weight Solution for Concrete Mixer Applications
Mack Trucks is offering a lightweight version of the Mack Granite model, equipped with the 2017 MP 7 11-liter engine and mDrive HD 14-speed automated manual transmission aimed at concrete mixer applications. The MP 7 11-liter engine received improvemen…
International Makes Collision Mitigation Standard on LT Series Trucks
International Truck has announced that its upcoming LT Series on-highway Class 8 tractor will come standard with an advanced driver assistance safety system that includes collision mitigation and stability technologies. Bendix Wingman Advanced is the s…
Don’t blame the trucks
It’s easy to blame truckers for congested traffic problems on I-95 like this scene near Exit 18 overpass in Westport. The easiest scapegoats are trucks, those behemoths that lumber along in the right and center lanes because they are not allowed to drive in the left lane.
50-year trucker Jack Binder has loved driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway since ’74 opening
Driving trucks on the Dalton Highway is an adventure, which is why Jack Binder has braved the famed highway since it opened in 1974. Binder, 68, is in the twilight of a 50-year truck driving career.
Truck driver Monica Tate keeps herself looking business-like, loves seeing U.S.
As a trucker for 23 years, Monica Tate, who drives a 2009 International ProStar leased to Landstar, said lackadaisical grooming policies have changed the face of the industry for the worse. Monica Tate is a businesswoman whose office happens to be roll…
2016 Citizen Driver Award winner Denis Litalien: – I have to pay a debt of gratitude’
Citizen Driver Award winner Denis Litalien points to the TA in Greenland, New Hampshire, that was renamed in his honor. The day of the renaming ceremony was the greatest after the day of his wedding and the day his daughter was born, Litalien says.
Follow the leader
Impressive demonstrations in Europe hint of a transformational technology to come
Get off on the right foot
Choose the correct technology to achieve your goals and avoid data overload
Trucking and the Internet of Things
Getting a handle on the profound effect on how trucks are spec’ed, operated and maintained now and into the future