Aaron Ramirez: ‘Works so hard to provide for our little family’
Aaron Ramirez Nominated by Alicia Ramirez, wife I love my trucker because he works so hard to provide for our little family. He is always away from home and missed so many birthdays and school events. When he gets home, he spends as much time as he can…
Group aiding truckers at Christmas starts 2020 campaign
Nominations for aid open Nov. 1
VW increases offer to purchase Navistar
Deal sweetened to $43 per share
1,100 Kenworths, Peterbilts recalled
Axel problem cited
COVID-19 Disruption Continues to Affect Freight, Rates
Pent-up consumer demand from COVID-19 shutdowns continues to buoy spot freight rates, but a still-weak manufacturing sector has experts at FTR cautioning that things could turn downward again.
SoCal Fleet Pilots Volvo VNR Electric Trucks
Dependable Highway Express has added a pair of Volvo VNR Electric trucks to its Southern California fleet as part of the Volvo LIGHTS project.
Truckers Christmas Group fundraising getting in swing for year-end push
The grassroots group’s 13th annual campaign to help bring Christmas to trucking families in need gets under way today following record hauls in both 2018 and last year, when the $14,500 distributed among 29 families all told almost doubled the prior ye…
Volkswagen ups offer to acquire Navistar
Volkswagen’s commercial truck arm, Traton, on Thursday bumped its offer to acquire Navistar from $35 to $43 per share. In other news: The comment period for FMCSA’s proposed under-21 trucker pilot program is open; RoadPro is hosting a virtual concert f…
Demand for simulator-based driver training soars
MILTON, Ont. – It was a fitting finale to the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada’s virtual annual conference – an online discussion on Virtual Training in a Covid-19 World. And the panelists agreed — driver training using simulators and other …
Crooks posing as carriers and brokers stealing millions in growing identity theft schemes
From Overdrive’s Broker Reforms series earlier this year: Alarms are ringing over a scheme where perpetrators impersonate both carriers and brokers in a kind of “double-brokering” theft scheme to get loads moved and pocket the payments.