Covenant drivers get pay raise to start new year
Drivers at one of the largest trucking companies in the U.S. will welcome the new year with a pay raise. Covenant Transport announced recently what it says is the largest driver pay increase in the company’s history, which takes effect Jan. 4. The comp…
C.R. England latest major carrier to boost driver pay
Salt Lake City-based C.R. England last week announced a multi-million dollar driver pay increase for most of its over-the-road drivers. The company said this is the largest pay increase in its 100-year history. The pay increase, which went into effect …
Major winter storm takes aim at Northeast
Much of the Northeast expects a major storm later this week to deliver as much as two feet of snow in some locations, freezing rain in others, and blizzard-like conditions in parts of New York, New Jersey, and southern New England. The storm is expecte…
200 new truck parking spaces now available
Love’s today opened new locations in Texas and Florida, adding a total of almost 200 new truck parking spots. The new Love’s in Amarillo, Texas is located off Interstate 40, and adds 100 truck parking spaces. The new store in Baldwin, Flori…
Poll finds most truckers will not get COVID vaccination
It appears truckers are considerably more skeptical than Americans in general when it comes to getting a COVID-19 vaccination when it becomes available in this country. As the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out in numerous tractor-trailer…
LG New Tone Style L5 comfortable and lightweight
As a long-haul trucker logging hundreds of miles in all sorts of traffic and uncertain weather conditions, the last thing you need to worry about is your headset being uncomfortable and unresponsive to your communication needs. When you begin your driv…
Office workers get a taste of being a driver
It’s one thing to hear about what it takes to drive a tractor-trailer, but something else entirely to do it … especially if you have never done it before. Carter and Madison, two office staff members of PDM Financial, a factoring company ba…
Drivers Can Now Activate Over-the-Air Updates on Volvo Trucks
Volvo Trucks’ Driver Display Activation application went into full production on Nov. 30, allowing operators to directly activate over-the-air system updates within minutes at the next convenient time and location.
Remembering Arline Bennett, ‘a pillar of the trucking community’
If there has been a figure central to the grassroots in trucking across its diverse interests, personalities and causes these last several and more years, it’s Arline Bennett, who passed a week ago today after a long battle with cancer. And ICYMI: A v…
Can you refuse to drive in poor weather?
With a significant winter storm expected to begin in the Ohio Valley Tuesday night and stretch into the mid-Atlantic and southern New England states as the week goes on, this story probes just what are a driver’s rights when the weather gets too bad to…