DOT Orders BM&L Trucking to Shut Down
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Alabama-based BM&L Trucking, affiliated company IDM Transportation Inc. and its owners to immediately cease all transportation services based on serious s…
NHTSA Proposes Stability Control Mandate
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a first-ever federal motor vehicle safety standard to require electronic stability control (ESC) systems on large commercial trucks and buses.
YRC Freight Announces Driver Hiring Initiative
YRC Freight, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, plans to hire 200 over-the-road drivers in cities across the U.S.,
Trucker gets prison sentence in plea deal for officers’ assault
A truck driver charged with assaulting officers after police said he broke into an Ambridge, Beaver County, home has accepted a plea deal of 18-36 months in prison.
Freightliner, Westport Schedule Cross-Country Trips to Prove Viability of CNG
Freightliner Trucks and Westport Innovations have scheduled cross-country trips in compressed natural gas-powered trucks to prove the availability of the fuel out on the road.
Truckers and Detroit Residents Celebrate New Truck Road
Both the Detroit Free Press and The Windsor Star reported that hundreds of trucks rolled onto a new truck road linking the Ambassador Bridge to interstates, last Monday.
Court Papers: EPA Penalties Keep Navistar in Class 8 Business
Navistar cannot meet heavy-duty emission standards and is surviving in the Class 8 business because the Environmental Protection Agency is permitting it to pay nonconformance penalties, according to court documents filed by the company and the agency…
Michigan opens long-delayed bridge truck road
DETROIT, Mich. — A dedicated truck road, long in the planning, has finally opened on the Detroit side of the Ambassador Bridge, a win-win for truckers who no longer have to navigate the streets of inner city Detroit, and for neighbourhood…
Trailer-mounted fueling station lets customers ease into LNG
Let’s say you and your boss want to go “green” by trying out some natural gas-fueled trucks or tractors that you’re getting on loan or lease, but you want to fuel them at your terminal, where diesel fuel islands already are.
Canadian fleets finish in top four of TCA’s Weight Loss Showdown
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Bison Transport and Brian Kurtz Trucking – the lone Canadian entrants into the Truckload Carriers Association’s (TCA) Weight Loss Showdown – both finished in the top four.