Transportation Insights Buys FreightPros Brokerage
FreightPros will initially operate within Transportation Insight’s holding company, Transportation Insight Holdings, and over time will be integrated with its Nolan Transportation Group brokerage business unit.
Christmas Tree Makes Journey to Capitol Lighting Ceremony [Photos]
A photo essay on the 2,000-mile trek from New Mexico that the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree takes to be lit in a special ceremony on the Capitol’s West Lawn.
Consumers keep wheels on US freight economy
[caption caption="Retail shipments are filling tractor-trailers as US manufacturing struggles to recover from a slowdown. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]The freight economy is getting a visit of the faster-growing ghost of Christmas pa…
Dart Transit Names New President/CEO
Dave Ables has been appointed the new president and CEO of Dart Transit Company.
New stretch of Highway 407 opens Monday
TORONTO, Ont. – The Highway 407 East project has been completed ahead of schedule, and the expanded stretch will be open to drivers Monday, the government announced Friday. The project connects Highway 407 from the new Highway 418 to Highway…
Contest lets you stuff your own stocking
Win prizes from RoadPro Family of Brands
Bryan Dye’s 2002 Peterbilt 379
The rig is powered by a Cat 3406E 6NZ single turbo with a custom tune backed by an Eaton 18-speed. Dye says there’s not an inch of the truck he hasn’t touched.
Cynthia Nagamatsu is TTC president
TORONTO, Ont. — The Toronto Transportation Club has named Cynthia Nagamatsu president. Nagamatsu, vice-president of commercial client services at Hargraft Schofield LP, was chosen at the club’s annual general meeting ahead of its 106th annual din…
Rates up with holiday week on spot market
The number of loads moved declined and load-to-truck ratios fell for all three equipment types during the holiday week, but rates were up for vans and reefers for the month of November over the preceding month.
Truck burns in Nebraska; driver, cargo of mail safe
Fire on Interstate 80