As part of the IndyCar Series and NASCAR truck series weekend, the Texas Motor Speedway will be hosting the 38th Annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck show. Inside the track, the truck beauty contest will be right there in front of the fans. Hard-working truckers from the United States and Canada…
For the ninth year in a row, the Big Idaho Potato Truck is rolling out from Boise to travel the country. It will be on tour with an all-female Tater Team traveling around 35,000 miles and stopping in nearly 100 cities. This piece of pop-culture has become a staple all…
Big companies who are members of the Trucking Alliance have had people oppose the hair testing for drugs as a potential racial bias. The “Assessing the Potential Disparate Impacts of Hair Drug Testing Among Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers” study, done at the University of Central Arkansas, did not find any…
When drivers are looking for a job, not all companies are going to be the same when it comes to what works for them and what they are looking for in a carrier. Every company is a bit different and finding the right fit can be tricky. Some of the…
There’s a lot of uptime in the trucking industry, it’s the unscheduled downtime we need to start finding solutions for. Building relationships with dealers and service providers is a good place to start. If you can put a face to and build a relationship with a person who you may…
Fieri helped first responders during the Tubbs Fire in Northern California in 2017 and has since served over 120,000 meals at other disaster locations. To further aid in this form of disaster relief, Freightliner has stepped up and donated a customized SportChassis Freightliner M2 112 tractor powered by a 470hp…
There is a program out there where truck drivers get to interact with classrooms full of kids. This program is called Trucker Buddy and is a fairly simple thing for truckers to keep up with. Just recently, a trucker named Android Pfloyd stopped by Palm Bay Magnet School in Melbourne,…
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is starting construction on a $13 million store in Baldwin, Florida. This new stop will be located at northwest Interstate 10 and U.S. 301 and will include an over 11,000 square foot convenience store (which will include trucker amenities) and an over 10,000 square…
There is a new non-profit organization out there that is helping truckers in need. TEAR (Truckers Emergency Assistance Responders) is a group of people who help truckers that need help due to wage theft, carrier abandonment, accidents, injury, or other issues truckers sometimes face. Idella Hanson, Dominic Oliveira, and Desiree…
Sometimes we need to go when the road to adventure calls. The link below leads to an interview of a 54-year-old woman who leaves the crowded office world for a life on the road as a truck driver. She was tired of not being able to enjoy life outside, so…