The American Transportation Research Institute has released its 2020 update of “An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking.” This tool gives insightful details about the finances of the trucking industry. This new update shows a slowdown of freight in the second half of 2019 along with a decrease in…
According to the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Tonnage Index, there was a decrease of 6.3% in October. September’s numbers went up 5.7% and were followed by a slump in October. The ATA’s Chief Economist is thinking this happened due to a seasonal issue instead of a pandemic one. Click the…
Darryn Carabeno, a trucker out of Weslaco, Texas, has spent the last 20 Thanksgivings making sure that families in need have food on the table. With contributions from the community, he will be giving away 500 turkeys this year. Carabeno enjoys giving to his community because they have done so…
The holidays are a merry and festive time of year, but there are bad people out there who want to take advantage of the trucks carrying all the goods. A data set put together by CargoNet shows that the top things stolen during the holidays are food and beverages, electronics,…
Wisconsin-based trucking company Paper Transport Inc. is joining other companies in the trucking industry and offering their drivers a guaranteed salary. Drivers are hard to come by these days because of the uncertainty of what’s going on out there with the pandemic and keeping them can be even trickier. There…
Thanksgiving is about gathering with friends and family and giving thanks for all that we have. There are many people out there who could use some help this Thanksgiving season and a couple of trucking businesses in Oregon have teamed up to make sure those families have a turkey on…
The U.S. government has built a new semi truck to transport nuclear weapons and materials. They also ran another semi-truck into it to see if it could keep the nuclear stuff from blowing up. The Mobile Guardian Transporter is the newest in nuclear transport technology and is getting run-through for…
According to the original creator of the Facebook group StopTheTires2020, the upcoming trucker protest will not be happening. Jeremy Rewoldt started the Facebook group one night to allow truckers a place to vent about this year’s election results and what they could mean. After a couple of weeks, there were…
You can now find more trucking parking spaces in Illinois, Georgia, and Arkansas thanks to Love’s Travel Stops. All three locations are open 24/7 and offer truckers many amenities. The Marion, Illinois location is off Interstate 57, has 119 truck parking spots, 10 diesel bays, 7 showers, laundry facilities, a…
After ruling the road in your big rig, you can be king of the road on the Nintendo Switch. Truck Driver is now available on the Switch and comes with an array of Switch-only features. It has previously been released on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One but is…