Maxim’s annual pancake breakfast helps raise $20,000 for charity
WINNIPEG, Man. – Maxim Truck & Trailer held its 15th annual charity pancake breakfast on December 3. The event took place at Maxim’s head office in Winnipeg and attracted more than 500 hungry guests. In total, the breakfast raised…
Carrier Select tool gets an upgrade following new legislation
PORTLAND, Ore. – Vigillo announced today (Dec. 7) that it has redesigned its Carrier Select tool, moving it from a downloadable application to a web-based application. Carrier Select provides freight brokers, shippers and insurers real-time, sharable data for analyzing motor…
Russian Lawmakers Amend Controversial Road Tax Bill
In a hurried attempt to placate protesting truck drivers, the Russian parliament on Friday eased fines under a new road bill and indicated that it was ready to make further concessions. Truck drivers, many of whom own and operate their own vehicles, ha…
Toronto Transportation Club hosts AGM
TORONTO, Ont. – The Toronto Transportation Club hosted its Annual General Meeting on December 3 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. During the meeting, the board voted and elected a new committee for next year. Tim Roulston…
Truckers helping truckers this Christmas season
After a hiatus last year, the Truckers Christmas Group is back for its seventh season, raising money to help trucking families in need in Canada and the U.S. – and they are looking for nominations. “The charity is about truckers helping truckers,” said…
Truckers helping truckers this Christmas season
WICHITA, Kan. – After a hiatus last year, the Truckers Christmas Group is back for its seventh season, raising money to help trucking families in need in Canada and the U.S. – and they are looking for nominations. “The charity…
Evel Knievel Show Truck on Display for the Holidays
Evel Knievel’s Mack FS786LST model show truck is celebrating the holidays at the Mack Trucks Historical Museum in Allentown, Penn. Photo: Mack Trucks Mack Trucks is celebrating the holidays by featuring Evel Knievel’s show truck “Big Red” at the Mack T…
Summit Truck Group, Tulsa Holds Grand Opening
Summit Truck Group and Summit Lease & Rental hosted a grand opening at their newly-acquired Tulsa, Okla., location on Nov. 19, 2015, with more than 300 customers attending the event. Summit had purchased the former Frontier International locations …
November Truck Order Numbers Not Looking Good
Compared with last year’s record truck order numbers, preliminary reports for this November show dramatically decreased demand in the Class 8 segment. Early numbers from ACT Research and FTR project Class 8 truck orders to hit somewhere between 16,400 …
Russian truckers threaten crippling Moscow traffic jam in rare protest
For days, police and dozens of truckers planning to paralyze Moscow in a vehicular act of protest have played a game of hide-and-seek, as the drivers prepare to ride on the capital in force. At 12 a.m. Friday, nearly half of the fledgling revolutionari…