Freight payment vendor hit by system outage

[caption caption="Payment vendors provide carrier portals that can be points of system vulnerability due the range of parties given access to those platforms. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]Widely-used freight payment services provi…

The lonely road — downtime pursuits for sanity

What do you do to maintain sanity while on the road for days and weeks on end? Sharing your enthusiasms with friends and family — if not the entire community of drivers — may help you “run your race as best you can, and cherish the time you have with…

A Look at Race Relations in Trucking

Trucker Ahmed Issa still remembers the testy conversation between two of his former Hyndman Transport colleagues, one white and the other African-Canadian, a few years ago.

Landstar names finalists for 2020 Cascadia giveaway

Four drivers have been named finalists to win a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia in Landstar’s 2020 All-Star Truck Giveaway. In other news: A North Carolina-based driver was recognized for helping a stranded elderly woman; Love’s opened a new location near S…

How to truck safely through tornado season

Tornadoes pose a serious danger to anyone caught in their path, but especially to truck drivers, who are constantly on the road and may have difficulty finding shelter in time. By far, the safest thing to do is to stay off the road until the severe wea…