Maryland truckers not happy with tying excise tax to price index
One of the biggest complaints I heard from truckers Wednesday while reporting on the proposed transportation funding bills was about the legislation tying excise taxes to the Consumer Price Index.
826 truckers pulled off Arizona I-10 for violations
Nearly 900 commercial truck drivers were pulled off the road in a two-day effort to make driving safer on Interstate 10 in southern Arizona.
Navistar board appoints Troy Clarke as president, CEO
LISLE, Ill. — Navistar has appointed Troy A. Clarke as its president and CEO, effective April 15. Clarke, currently the company’s president and chief operating officer, will also join the board of directors. At the same time, Lewis B….
826 truckers pulled off Ariz’s I-10 for violations
Nearly 900 commercial truck drivers were pulled off the road in a 2-day effort to make driving safer on Interstate 10 in southern Arizona.
Trucker’s trial begins in Maumee
John N. Tucker, a Flint, Mich., truck driver, is on trial in Maumee Municipal Court in connection with the deaths of three people who were killed in a crash on I-475 in 2011.
Truck traffic on Pattullo Bridge leaps 25 per cent since tolls levied on Port Mann
Canadian country-folk legend Stompin’ Tom Connors, whose toe-tapping musical spirit and fierce patriotism established him as one of Canada’s strongest cultural icons, has died.
Shipper to fight paying Long Beach truckers $100K
A manager for a Gardena freight shipping and trucking company said Tuesday that the company intends to fight a labor commissioner’s order to pay four Long Beach port truck drivers more than $100,000 in withheld wages, interest and penalties.
US trucking titans unleash their wrath over pending HoS regulations
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A looming driver shortage, which could prove the “worst we’ve seen” is already manifesting in a significant drop of applicants for driving jobs and enrolments for driving schools, according to executives…
Tom Kretsinger, Jr., of American Central Transport, Inc., to lead TCA as 2013-2014 chairman
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) has elected Tom Kretsinger, Jr., president of American Central Transport, Inc., Liberty, Missouri, as its 2013-2014 chairman.
Brian Kurtz Trucking and Bison Transport take grand prizes in TCA’s National Fleet Safety awards
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Canadian carriers pulled off a clean sweep of the top National Safety Awards presented at The Truckload Carriers Association conference.