On Northbound Interstate 35, the Albert Lea rest area is temporarily closed for repairs. According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the rest area is closed because of a water pump failure. This rest area is at mile marker 1 near the Iowa border, the next usable rest area is…
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has opened two more stores, one in Summerton, South Carolina, and one in Laredo, Texas. The Summerton store is off Interstate 95 and offers 103 truck parking spaces, 9 diesel bays, 7 showers, and a CAT scale. The Laredo store is off Highway 1472…
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…
Advanced Training Systems is doing its part to get new truckers out on the road to fill the gap. The supply chain has been ambushed by COVID-19, and a lack of new truck drivers is making it difficult for companies to fill their empty trucks. So, to the entire commercial…
Instructional Technologies is now offering a free online course for truckers titled: COVID-19: What Drivers Need To Know. If you are already a student of ITI this free course is available in your Sentix LMS, otherwise, there is a free video to all truckers at the link below. The course…
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…
Truckers Emergency Assistance Responders (TEAR) and DDC FPO have teamed up to provide personal protective equipment to truck drivers who are rolling in and out of hot zones to keep the essentials stocked. The PPE kits they are handing out to truckers include masks, hand sanitizer, antiseptic wipes, gloves, and…
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 American Transportation Research Institute Board of Directors has approved and released the 2020 Top Research Priorities. The following list of topics is made up of the current top industry issues. Click the link below to learn more about each one of these topics. Impact of Small Settlements on the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have put out a helpful set of guidelines for long-haul truckers and what they need to know about COVID-19. It starts with a description of what the virus is and what kind of symptoms have been seen along with how it spreads. The…