Port Metro container truckers demand new commissioner resign
The union representing container truck drivers at Port Metro Vancouver is calling for the resignation of the new container trucking commissioner over his allegedly close ties to port management. Andy Smith is the president of the B.C. Maritime Employer…
California Port Carrier Feeling Lockout’s Pinch
The Obama administration’s top labor official has called for a resolution to a labor dispute that has halted the flow of goods at the nation’s busiest port complex. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez has set a Feb. 20 deadline to finish contract nego…
Kenworth Awards Parts Dealers At Dealer Meeting
From left are, Truck Enterprises executives John Harter and Jim Hartman, and David Danforth, PACCAR Parts general manager and PACCAR vice president. Photo: Kenworth Kenworth named Truck Enterprises Hagerstown its 2014 Parts and Service Dealer of the Ye…
Landi Renzo to Offer CNG 2016 F-650 Truck
Landi Renzo USA plans to produce a dedicated compressed natural gas version of Ford’s 2016 F-650 truck that will appear at NTEA’s The Work Truck Show in early March. Ford’s updated of its F-650 and F-750 will include a model with a version of its 6.8L …
Knight Chooses Zonar Tablet for Telematics Platform
Knight Transportation has chosen the Zonar 2020 Mobile Tablet as the new telematics platform for its fleet. The 2020 is an Android-based tablet and will use Zonar’s telematics platform.
Giant Asshole Dumps 400 Gallons Of Poop On Highway, Doesn’t Wipe Up
A malfunctioning shitwagon apparently dumped “three to four hundred gallons of raw sewage” which froze solid on an exit ramp of Indiana Interstate 65. The trucker split, the road’s been closed, and some public works guys had probably the worst shift of…
Immigrants & The U.S. Trucking Industry
Khan argues that the “positive economic contributions” of immigrant truck-drivers have been overlooked. Immigrants constitute 15.7 percent of the current truck-driver workforce.
C.A.T introduces door to door intermodal service
C.A.T. INC. has announced a new door-to-door intermodel service for its clients shipping to all points in North America. The new service combines the company’s asset and non-asset based network, and so far it has added capacity, and a reduced…
Derrick Broome
Truckers With 35,000 Openings Seek Jobless Oil Workers: Freight
Already equipped with a commercial license, the 30-year-old Sanford left North Dakota and landed at Oklahoma City-based Stevens Trucking Co. He is sometimes on the road as long as four days at a stretch, but the working conditions are good, he said, an…