Demand grows for truckers

Now that King, 23, of O’Fallon, Mo., has passed the state commercial drivers license test, he will spend the next five or six weeks driving a tractor-trailer under the watchful eye of a trainer before he ventures out on his own.

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Up 1.6% in September

American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.6% in September after falling a revised 0.5% in August 2011, the group’s economists announced.

HDAW’12 One-on-One Meeting Distributor Registration Now Open

Conference organizers have officially opened distributor registration for the One-on-One meetings segment of Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week’12. The one-on-One meetings will take place January 25-26, and more than 100 suppliers have already committed to …