Spireon Turns ‘Smart Trailer’ Data Into Insights
What is a smart trailer? Spireon says it has an answer, with its recent introduction of Intelligent Trailer Management.
Trailer Sanitation Service Designed to Meet Food Safety Rules
Healthy Trailer LLC offers a trailer sanitation service that helps carriers meet Food Safety Modernization Act rules, and says it has scientific testing to prove it works.
Forward Air acquires Linn Star trucking companies
Deal closes in January.
TransWood acquires Minnesota-based Kane Transport
Omaha-based TransWood, a privately-owned company specializing in liquid and dry bulk transportation, recently purchased Kane Transport. Located in Grove Heights, Minnesota, Kane is a 150-plus truck, bulk carrier hauling petroleum products, construction…
Truck overturns, spills 35,000 lbs. of M & M’s
Driver suffers only minor injuries
Upward Pricing Pressures on Most Fixed and Operating Costs
Fleets are being impacted by a variety of inflationary pressures ranging from higher acquisition prices due to the proliferation of onboard safety equipment, to increased material costs pushing up pricing on parts, upfits, and replacement tires.
FMCSA Delays Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Compliance for States
Be aware that the partial extension of the compliance date for the new clearinghouse rule does not apply to motor carriers.
The methodical tour, by ‘Choice,’ from corporate America to a small flatbed fleet
Fredrick “Choice M.A.S.” Claxton of New York caught the trucking bug following a two-wheeled cross-country tour on a Suzuki street bike. In this Overdrive Radio edition, he details his methodical approach building a young second career in flatbed with …
See you on the other side
As first reported last month, Truck News is transitioning to an online format with the publishing of this, its final print edition. As the magazine’s longest-serving editor, I greeted the inevitable announcement with mixed feelings. Like many of you, I…
A sentimental ride through the 1981 ads
TORONTO, Ont. — Nineteen eighty-one was an eventful year. The Canadian housing market reeled under sky-high mortgage rates, John DeLorean unveiled his futuristic DMC-12 sports car, Microsoft debuted its operating system MS-DOS and Kim Cranes rule…