UPS Buys Coyote Logistics For $1.8 Billion
UPS has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Coyote Logistics, a non-asset based truckload freight brokerage company for $1.8 billion from the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Coyote arranges freight shipments on available trucking ca…
Nebraska Trucker Pleads Guilty to Threatening FMCSA Inspector
Ronald Mockelman pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Neb., to intimidating a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration employee. Earlier this year, Mockelman, a commercial truck driver, allegedly made several threatening phone calls t…
OHSU urges truckers to lose weight in $2.6 million study
Truck drivers, who carry goods across the country, are 20 percent more obese than the rest of Americans. Nearly 40 percent of truck drivers are obese and more of them smoke than in any other profession, according to a study last year in Washington state.
FMCSA responds to GAO report on HoS changes, ATA accuses FMCSA of ‘cherry-picking’
WASHINGTON, DC — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) responded to the recent US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today that examined the agency’s 2014 study on the hours-of-service changes made in 2011 and implemented in 2013. The GAO…
Tensions heightened around Calais as authorities struggle to cope with migrant crisis
KIM LANDERS: There’s increasing tensions in France and Britain about the growing number of migrants gathered at the French port of Calais. Both countries have sent extra police and security measures to try to stop the flow of people using the Channel T…
Inaugural Southern Alberta Truck Expo exceeds expectations
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The skies were clear and the sun smiled down on this southern Alberta city as it hosted what’s planned to be the first of an annual showcase of the trucking industry. The event, held on Saturday, July…
Road Choice expands product offering with six new product categories
Greensboro, NC — Road Choice Truck Parts rolled out six more new replacement product categories to its expanding offering. The newest additions to the portfolio include diesel particulate filters (DPF), heavy-duty commercial batteries, truck fenders, wheel bearings, wheel seals and CB antennas…
Cooking in a semi: A truck driver’s road to healthy eating
He has a microwave, a toaster oven, a ceramic electric skillet, a waffle maker, a butane stove and an electronic pressure cooker – all inside the driver’s cabin. “I have basically any kind of cooking utensil you can think of,” says Andersen, who has be…
To Get Big Rig Drivers, Senate Bill Would Give Keys To Teens
Tractor-trailers have 18 wheels. But under current federal law you can’t be 18 years old and drive one across state lines.
Bill seeks $1.1M compensation for trucker
Fifteen years after a tanker-truck driver died in an explosion on the Hart Bridge Expressway, a state lawmaker has renewed an effort to get compensation for his family. Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, filed a “claim” bill this week seeking to require the…