News roundup, Dec. 11: Five days remain before final ELD deadline; Tiger Truck Stop billboard: ‘Stop in for a bite’; trucking safety-themed holiday ornament
FMCSA adds a search function to its electronic-logging-device FAQ resource as AOBRD transition deadline approaches is six days away; Louisiana truck stop turns camel’s unfortunate encounter with a human’s bite into marketing opportunity; new trucking s…
Women with Drive: The journey continues
On Dec. 3 in Ottawa, Trucking HR Canada, along with partners from across the country, wrapped up our Women with Drive Hits the Road tour. The initiative builds on the success of the national Women with Drive leadership summit that…
Handshake Deal Reached to Secure NAFTA Replacement Trade Agreement
Deal means that Congress in the coming weeks can take a straight up-or-down vote on the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade deal the three countries agreed to over a year ago.
HDT Announces the Emerging Leaders of 2019
HDT’s 2019 Emerging Leaders are being honored for on-the-job accomplishments and winning approaches to managing others they have demonstrated before reaching the age of 40. They collectively represent a cross-section of trucking operations, ranging fro…
More Celadon fallout: Next steps for two operators
(UPDATED: 12/11/2019 with detail from former Celadon lease-partner TEL.) Who’s more important in the trucking-business mix — the drivers or the customers? Given it seems drivers were among some of the last to know of the trucking company’s impending c…
Questions emerge around Ontario SPIF switch
TORONTO, Ont. – Ontario is approaching the final stages of a multi-year update to allowable vehicle weights and dimensions — but there are still some unanswered questions around at least one specific switch. The rollout of Safe, Productive and In…
Western carrier ceases operations, sells its assets
SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. – Alberta-based carrier Ventures West Transport is selling off all its assets, as the company’s majority owner has decided to cut its losses. Ventures West, which serviced the western provinces, Yukon, and N.W.T., was doomed after …
Drug clearinghouse looming, owner-operators express frustration, lack of awareness
Many owner-operators, though technically not required to do anything before the looming Jan. 6 deadline, are in some ways unaware of, and unprepared for, the new CDL Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse rule that takes effect in less than a month.
She returned to Celadon in November only to lose her job
Rebecca Peoples began her truck driving career with Celadon about five years ago and was glad she did. But, heeding the attraction of greener pastures elsewhere in the trucking industry, she left only to find those other pastures weren’t so green…
Gift Guide: 10 Christmas ideas for the woman trucker in your life
Christmas is right around the corner and now is the time to get any last-minute gifts you may need. If you’re still struggling to pick out what to get the woman trucker in your life then the options offered up in this guide can help you. 1. Carha…