‘Over the road’ episode 5: Back home
In this week’s episode of the Over the Road podcast, a coproduction of Overdrive and PRX’s Radiotopia podcast network, a producer heads home to Montana to explore her own family’s three-generation history in trucking and how the stresses/peculiarities …
Goodyear to phase-in restart of production
AKRON, Ohio – Goodyear plans to phase in a restart of production in the second quarter, beginning in April with some of its commercial truck tire facilities in the U.S. and Europe. This from the company’s preliminary Q1 financial reports, which reporte…
New Covid-19 tip sheets for drivers, other transportation workers
HAMILTON, Ont. – The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has developed a series of free Covid-19 tip sheets for high-risk occupations and essential services and industries. The guidance for transportation workers stresses the imp…
Truck World
The meeting place for Canada’s trucking industry with Everything Trucking: equipment, innovations, connections, solutions. Featuring over 500 exhibitors, new products showcase, VIP breakfast, job fair, Highway Star of the Year, and hat day. Truck World…
ECONOMIC WATCH: Trailer orders fall precipitously
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Trailer orders in March fell 54% from depressed February levels, to 6,500 units, according to preliminary data from FTR. Orders were down 55% from March 2019, as the global Covid-19 pandemic took a toll on trailer manufacturers. Dry…
ATA chief named to White House panel
ARLINGTON, Va. — American Trucking Associations president and CEO Chris Spear is among transportation leaders named by President Donald Trump to the administration’s Great American Economic Revival Initiative. Under the initiative, leaders …
B.C. Trucking Association Annual Spring Dinner
Truck World 2020
New policy states essential workers crossing border must wear non-medical mask
OTTAWA, Ont. – The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has advised, effective immediately, that all essential workers crossing the Canada-U.S. border must wear a non-medical mask or face covering. Truck drivers, being essential workers, must comply w…
Transflo, ATA Supply COVID-19 Information to Drivers
Transflo has partnered with American Trucking Associations on the Driver Assist Task Force platform and mobile app, a suite of free digital tools to give truck drivers and fleets health and safety information to help keep supply chains moving during si…