Don’t run over this duck at the Super Bowl of trucking
The audience watches as drivers compete in a driving course inside the Salt Palace Convention Center for the American Trucking Association National Truck Driving Championships in which 424 of the best professional truck drivers from around the country …
Qualcomm Sells Trucking Telematics Business for $800 Million
Wireless communications giant Qualcomm is selling its Omnitracs trucking communications and telematics business for $800 million to Vista Equity Partners, a U.S.-based private equity firm.
Dealing with drivers
A growing shortage of truck drivers will force the trucking industry and the shippers it serves to rethink the pay scales and working environment of commercial vehicle operators in the very near future, according to several industry experts.
NTSB says trucker involved in Maryland crash was distracted
The National Transportation Safety Board has found that a truck driver who smashed into two vehicles on the Bay Bridge in Maryland in July – pushing a car over the guard rail and into the river below – was distracted by lights and sounds behind him at …
Don’t be blindsided by supply chain disruptions; learn how to tame unpredictability
TORONTO, Ont. — Having depth and breadth of specialized logistics knowledge is the key to predicting and manoeuvring the disruptions that strike our global and domestic supply chain logistics ecosystems, says CITT’s president Catherine…
Mergers and Acquisitions in Transportation: How big are the opportunities?
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Mergers and Acquisitions activity is expected to intensify in the transportation sector over the next several years.
Don’t sweat LCV interchange reconstruction: OTA
TORONTO, Ont. — The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) says it has been assured by the Ministry of Transportation that no LCV-approved interchanges in Ontario will be modified in such a way that they will no longer allow LCV traffic following…
Trucking associations, industry offer free cargo crime workshop
BURFORD, Ont. — The Canadian Trucking Alliance, the Ontario Trucking Association, Verisk Crime Analytics Canada and CargoNet will present the official launch of their “Project Momentum” agenda Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Burford…
Goodyear launches FleetHQ app
AKRON, Ohio — Goodyear has developed a new app for its FleetHQ program, which allows drivers in the field to more efficiently solicit roadside assistance.
Freightliner introduces new roof fairing, starts production of 122SD
DALLAS, Texas — Freightliner today announced the availability of a new factory-installed roof fairing for the Cascadia and Cascadia Evolution, as well as the start of production of the 122SD vocational truck.