WSDOT creates tool to help truckers avoid low bridges
Hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2013 Skagit River Bridge collapse, state transportation officials have created a new online tool to help truckers plan their routes and avoid collisions. A section of that bridge on Interstate 5 fell into the Skagit Rive…
Mack Expands Support for Body Builders
Mack Trucks expanded its customer and body builder support by creating a body builder order manager position along with a support team. This team will ensure effective collaboration among body builders, dealers and customers during the ordering and ins…
Taking Care of Business
One way truckers can stay healthy is by sticking a bike in their cab and riding it at every opportunity. The combination of junk food and sugary beverages, along with the fact that truck drivers spend most of their time sitting with little movement, ca…
Fort Smith Jury Awards Thousands To Trucker Fired After Self-Reporting Alcohol Abuse
A Fort Smith jury awarded a former truck driver $119,612 after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit stating the worker was not properly accommodated after he self-reported alcohol abuse, according to a news release. The former tr…
Truckers threaten more job action at Port Metro Vancouver
Photographer Mike Chatwin took advantage of the recent foggy weather to capture some stunning images of downtown Vancouver in his YouTube video, A Foggy Wednesday Morning in Vancouver. The theatre spent $16,320, money raised through a crowd-sourced Ind…
Volvo Trucks dedicates 2015 Volvo VNL 780 to America’s Road Team
DUBLIN, Va. — Today, Volvo Trucks dedicated a 2015 Volvo VNL 780 equipped with advanced safety features to the 2015-2016 America’s Road Team at the company’s assembly plant in Dublin, Virginia. The keys were officially presented to Pat Thomas, the…
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Agreement Reached to Reduce Federal Oversight of Teamsters Union
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Teamsters have entered into a settlement agreement that would greatly reduce federal oversight of the union. It is up to a federal court as to whether to approve the deal following a consent decree that has b…