KYTC District 1 has announced an extended closure for the ‘Cairo’ bridge starting sometime during the week of August 3-9 and lasting approximately 30 days. This heavily traveled bridge brings traffic from U.S. 51, U.S. 60, and U.S. 62 back and forth from Wickliffe, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois. Of all…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has announced the completion of a truck parking project at two rest areas along US Highway 160. The Sleeping Ute Rest Area in Montezuma County and the Shaw Creek Rest Area in Rio Grande County now have more and improved parking spaces for commercial trucks…
According to American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, truck tonnage increased 8.7% in June. As more states lift restrictions, truck usage and tonnage were bound to increase. When compared to June 2019, the numbers were down 1.3%, but given the health crisis, it wasn’t that small…
Love’s Travel Stops has announced that beginning July 29, every location will be requiring its customers to wear face coverings. This includes all Love’s Travel Stops, Loves’s Country Stores, Love’s Truck Cares, and Speedco locations around the country. This is being done because they want to protect their customers, employees,…
For its fourth year in a row, REAL Women in Trucking is hosting the Queen of the Road Awards on August 29. Normally, this award ceremony is held during the Great American Truck Show, but due to the pandemic GATS has been shut down and it will now be held…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s 2020 Trucking Safety Summit will be held virtually on August 5, 2020. They will be using the online platform GoToWebinar and held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT. The goal of this summit is to discuss further ways of improving trucking safety across…
Retaining drivers can be tricky these days with all the regulations out there in the industry, and keeping your experienced drivers is something you should strive to do. Keeping those drivers around who know what they are doing comes from smarter regulations and paying them what they deserve. In turn,…
According to a recent poll, 93% of Canadians think that traveling South to the U.S. this summer is not a good idea. Currently, Canada has a 14-day isolation rule for those coming back from the U.S. but truckers are exempt from having to do this because they are considered ‘essential’….
Auburn University is planning a new facility for the researchers in the GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory. This facility will be directed toward autonomous vehicles research and be located at Auburn’s National Center of Asphalt Technology test track. A multi-bay garage will be part of the new facility along with…
Two professors from the University of Central Arkansas have released the results of their study involving drug testing on truckers. Turns out, if a hair drug test was required over a urinalysis then around 300,000 truck drivers would be fired because a hair drug test catches more drugs then the…