Tennessee trucking company Big G Express is having its annual motorcycle ride fundraiser on May 30 in Mt. Juliet, TN from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Big G Express Motorcycle Ride is a fundraiser benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Click the link below for the event’s Facebook page…
The Utah Department of Transportation is currently working on a new truck escape ramp just outside of Garden City. On U.S. 89, just before entering the city on the last hill, quite a few trucks have crashed so the UDOT decided to build a $5 million ramp system. A catch…
The Venetian in Las Vegas is planning on opening its doors again on June 1st, and they want to honor hard-working essential workers with a free one night stay. This is their way of honoring those who kept working to make sure the rest of us were safe and healthy…
According to the American Trucking Associations, the For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index dropped 12.2%. In March, there was a small increase of 0.4% so this was quite the decline. This historic drop is no doubt a result of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting everyone in the country, especially those in the trucking…
There is a shift going on out there in the trucking industry that is affecting the way truck drivers are getting hired. With the closure of driving schools and agencies where you can get a driver’s license, trucking companies are focusing more on experienced drivers. Recent data has shown that…
Hotcars.com has put together a list of some intriguing and nasty truck spills with pictures to show the messes. The first picture shows a river of chocolate all over both lanes of highway in Poland. Another picture shows the aftermath of a whale explosion in the streets of Taiwan and…
The 2020 Walcott Truckers Jamboree at the World’s Largest Truckstop off Iowa 80 is going virtual this year. A large in-person event is not going to be allowed in Iowa this year, according to the Governor, so the event promoters had to get creative. There will be an online truck…
A media release has stated that the P.E.I to Nova Scotia will be re-opened “no earlier than June 1, 2020” for everyone else, but for truckers, it will be open starting tomorrow. Northumberland Ferries Limited is opening the service for large commercial trucks and their drivers first. They hope to…
Out of California, owner of San Paso Truck Stop and Melton Technologies Inc., Andy Pham is offering free business identification protection to truckers. As truckers are on the road a great deal and don’t get a lot of time to stay up to date on their finances they are at…
The New York State Thruway Authority Board of Directors has approved a plan to redevelop 27 rest areas on the Thruway. They were originally built in the 1950s with the last redevelopment in the 1990s. A $450 million investment has been made to rebuild 23 of the rest areas and…