Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has opened two new travel stops, one in Holladay, Tennessee, and one in New Florence, Missouri. The Tennessee travel stop has 124 truck parking spaces, 9 diesel bays, 9 showers, Love’s Truck Care, and a CAT scale. The Missouri travel stop has 89 truck…
According to the For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index put out by the American Trucking Associations, truck tonnage fell 1% in May. In April, this report showed a fall of 10.3% in truck tonnage but ATA’s Chief Economist is not too concerned about it. There are still many indicators out there that…
Convoy has announced they have teamed up with Feeding America to deliver undeliverable food and beverages to food banks around the country. By using their Digital Freight Network and MealConnect technology they will be able to connect with truckers who have rejected shipments of food or beverages and find them…
States are opening back up and freight is starting to move like normal again. A study of trucks traveling put out by Samsara Networks has shown us that trucks are rolling again but there is more speeding and less hard braking going on out there. During the COVID-19 lockdown, there…
USDOT’s Federal Highway Administration has awarded a $4.4 million grant for the Interstate 70 Truck Automation Corridor project. The project is a collaboration between DriveOhio, INDOT, the Transportation Research Center, and ODOT. This project will allow those working with automated trucks a safe place to deploy their operations. Data gathered…
It’s an interesting world out there these days, and sometimes truckers have to drive through the middle of it in order to get the job done. There are peaceful protests all over the country, and some have turned violent, making it tricky and dangerous to get through. Without knowing which…
Freightwaves put out a survey to drivers, carriers, and others within the trucking industry asking questions about guns. Turns out, and it is really no surprise, that truckers love their guns. 70% of those who responded to the survey carry a concealed gun on their persons or in their vehicles…
There are quite a few fans of trucking games out there and the people at PCGamesN have put together a list of trucking games to help you out. You can cruise along the coast or race your big rig, there is bound to be something for everyone. Check out Hard…
The female truckers group, Real Women in Trucking, were handing out PPE to truckers on Florida’s Turnpike this past weekend. Parked out at the Turkey Lake Plaza, these women were making sure the truckers going through had the necessary personal protective equipment to make sure they stayed safe and healthy….
It’s not going to be easy for truck stop restaurants to just open their doors and say “come on in”, there are new rules and regulations to follow. Remember, each state is going to have different regulations to follow so the TA you visit in California might have more available…