COVID-19 Cases Identified at 1-70 Kansas Service Area
The Shawnee County Health Department recently warned of some COVID-19 cases stemming from the Topeka Service Area on the I-70 Turnpike located at mile marker 188, just East of Topeka.
2020 Virtual Super Trucks Beauty Contest
The 2020 Walcott Truckers Jamboree moved its Super Truck Beauty Contest online this year to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Operation Safe Driver Week Begins, Focus on Speeding
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Operation Safe Driver Week officially began today and will run through Saturday, July 18.
‘We’re supposed to be in this thing together’: Level 3 inspection advice and more with Kansas trooper
This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features a talk with Kansas trooper Nick Wright, with answers to a variety of inspection-related questions, including preparedness insights, just how to approach an ELD annotations, and why an inspector may i…
FMCSA extends COVID-19 emergency hours exemption
FMCSA is extending the COVID-19 hours waiver for certain drivers through Aug. 14. In other news: More than 160,000 Freightliner Cascadias are being recalled; GBATS 2020 has been postponed to 2021; a New York-based trucker was named a Highway Angel; and…
FMCSA Extends COVID Emergency Relief Exemption
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 13 announced an extension of its Modified Emergency Declaration through Aug. 14, making motor carriers and drivers providing direct assistance to the COVID-19 emergency relief efforts exempt from …
Pride & Polish Weekly Video Encore, No. 7: J&L Contracting’s 2013 Peterbilt 389
Up this week at No. 7 is Springfield, Missouri-based J&L Contracting’s 2013 Peterbilt 389 glider, “Back in Black.” The truck earned a tie for first place in Interior – Cab Only and a first place in the Engine category at the 2016 75 Chrome Shop Pri…
Safe Driver Week continues through Saturday, July 18
Driver behavior focus of enforcement
Truck loaded with food hit by train in Texas
Trucker uninjured
Trucking generated $791.7 billion in revenue in 2019
Moved 11.84 billion tons of freight