48-Year Trucking Vet Wins Safety Director of the Year
Allan Hicks of BR Williams Trucking in Oxford, Ala., was honored with the 2015 National Safety Director Award, which is presented annually by the American Trucking Associations. During Hicks tenure as safety director, BR Williams received more than 50 …
Shortage of truckers drives pay incentives
A variety of factors – aging drivers, a recovered economy, drawbacks of an atypical lifestyle – could cause the shortage to more than triple in the next 10 years, according to the American Trucking Associations’ 2015 Truck Driver Shortage Analysis.The …
How a group of truckers saved Scarlet’s life
Louisiana Catahoula Leopard dogs, the state’s official dog, are normally inquisitive, energetic, loving and independent – but not Scarlet. This one-year old, 40-pound mix was abandoned, abused, despondent, cowered from strangers and in constant pain fr…
Safety Can’t Be Compromised as Part of Transportation Funding Bill
Congress is on the cusp of doing something it hasn’t done in more than a decade – approve a long-term highway bill. A bipartisan collection of lawmakers in both the House and Senate should be lauded for the difficult work they have accomplished thus fa…
Why this Great Sankey boxer and truck driver swears by botox
A BURLY Warrington trucker is urging all lorry drivers to get botox injections – after revealing how years of squinting at the sun in his cab left him with deep wrinkles in his forehead. Haulier Tony Harper, from Great Sankey, has joined the growing ba…
Driving the 2017 ISX15 with SmartAdvantage powertrain
A new direct drive SmartAdvantage is introduced for regional haul applications
Edward the emu and Rocky the dog meet and become best of friends
When a gangly young emu called Edward went looking for a father figure, he found it in the form of an unflappable pooch named Rocky. The two were paired up after Edward was found by a truck driver in a ditch near the West Australian rural town of Nannu…
Special Report: Truck Driver Shortage
“My favorite place that I’ve ever worked,” said AJ Lain. “I’ve had a lot of opportunities to go elsewhere, and this is the place that I choose to stay.”
Truck drivers battle with sharp curve
Truck drivers battle with sharp curve Curve on Federal Road causing problems for truck drivers and the parish Check out this story on dailyworld.com: http://www.dailyworld.com/story/news/local/2015/11/05/truck-drivers-battle-sharp-curve/75161322/ The t…
Divers searched murky Middle Pearl River 7 hours before reaching I-10 crash victim’s body
Divers groped through the murky water of the Middle Pearl River for seven hours before reaching the body of a trucker whose 18-wheeler plunged off the Interstate 10 bridge during a three-vehicle crash caused by a hit-and-run driver late Tuesday night ,…