Trucker Talent Search winner Taylor Barker meshes stage success with growing industry outreach
With one truck, nine guitars and a growing set of industry projects, 2019 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search winner Taylor Barker is finding his place with his music peers and others in trucking.
News roundup, Nov. 13: Large broker’s self-service quote system for small-biz shippers, I-17 in north Phoenix closing this weekend
Details on official launch of broker C.H. Robinson’s “Freightquote” self-service platform for small-business shippers. Arizona DOT crews will close I-17 in north Phoenix between Friday night and Sunday night.
Association Challenges California Independent Contractor Law
The California Trucking Association and two California-based owner-operators filed a lawsuit challenging the “ABC” employment test mandated by the state’s new independent contractor law, which the group says threatens the livelihood of independent truc…
Technology & The Tire
Technology has increased a modern truck tire’s useful life, overall fuel efficiency, and rolling resistance as well as helped reduce failures.
POLL: Will California’s A.B. 5 contractor law directly affect your business?
California-based leased owner-operators, or those who haul into California, do you know at this point how the state’s A.B. 5 independent contractor law is going to affect your operation? Too early to say? Still mulling options? Weigh in here.
Slick highway sends truck in wrong direction
Bad weather in the Midwest
Convoy snags historic $400 million investment
[caption caption="Upstart newer entrants in the brokerage industry have shaken up the space, but large and profitable incumbents note they have long invested in their own technological capability. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]As the …
Carrier expands program to hire military veterans
On Monday, Nov. 11 Veterans Day, Covenant Transport announced the creation of a military hiring program to increase the number of professional drivers it hires who are military veterans. “On a day when we honor our nations’ veterans, we couldn’t be pro…
Jason Aldean’s ninth album arrives Nov. 22
‘Really special we made it this far’
135 vehicles involved in two Ohio pileups in heavy snow
Two die in other crashes