New truck stop expected to have 300 parking spots
Opening in early 2021
B.C. fleets face massive Covid-19 revenue losses
LANGLEY, BC – Surveyed members of the BC Trucking Association (BCTA) are reporting a 29.8% drop in revenue due to Covid-19 – representing a further 9.3% drop since March. The province’s largest trucking organization describes the trucking and motor coa…
Daimler Truck Financial offers financing incentives
PORTLAND, Ore. – Daimler Truck Financial has introduced a new program for financing Freightliner and Western Star trucks. The Keep the World Moving program is aimed at customers who support critical infrastructure, offering the flexibility to upgrade o…
22 school classes receive Trucker Buddy grants
Each classroom received $500
Q&A: Starsky’s Seltz-Axmacher on Autonomous Trucks
Starsky Robotics had to give up on its goal of truly driverless trucks earlier this year after failing to secure additional needed funding. HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park recently spoke to founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher about what happened and why true s…
D.C. protest reached an apex on Wednesday inside the White House
Amid financial pressures and abysmal rates for many small-business truckers, the demonstrations in D.C. on their 20th day Wednesday reached an apex with a meeting in the White House with administration reps on the subject of issues in the brokered-frei…
Fleet data offers contact tracing tool for Covid-19
TORONTO, Ont. – The spread of Covid-19 is a contact sport. A truck driver could be exposed to respiratory droplets when someone nearby coughs or sneezes, through personal contact like a simple handshake, or by touching a surface that has the virus on i…
News roundup, May 21: FMCSA moving to remote compliance reviews during pandemic
FMCSA said it will leverage technology to conduct remote compliance reviews on carriers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Heavy rains in central Michigan have caused flooding that resulted in multiple dam failures near Midland, closing a section of U.S. Hi…
Artificial Intelligence: A Glossary
Confused by artificial intelligence terms? Here’s a glossary of some of the most common.
Pandemic Pivot: Distillery Ups Routing Efficiency to Deliver Spirits and Sanitizer
When this boutique spirits distillery began production and distribution of sanitizer, the company needed to reorganize its routing from a few deliveries a week to over a hundred a day.