The Minnesota Department of Transportation has stated that winter truckload increases will be ending on Monday and Spring load restrictions will begin in the central frost zone. Each zone of Minnesota will have different ending dates for Spring load restrictions due to how the intermittent weather and temperatures affect the…
DuPlooy Trucking, out of Wichita Falls, Texas, is expanding by offering its own CDL classes. They are currently taking applications for their first set of classes that will be going through Vernon College. By the end of the four-week program, new drivers will have earned a Class A Commercial Driver’s…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a regional declaration for truckers who are directly helping Tennessee tornado victims. A state of emergency has been declared because of the tornados that cut through parts of Tennessee this week and people involved are in need of help as soon as…
A new project has broken ground in Arizona and State Route 189, linking Mariposa Port of Entry with Interstate 19, is getting a few upgrades. This Nogales highway will help increase international trade and keep commercial trucks from having to stop so often between I-19 and the border. Construction is…
The organization, “Truckers Helping Hands” is gearing up to help those in need in Nashville, Tennessee. Tornados had ripped through areas of the city leaving a few dozen dead and many without homes and supplies. Truckers Helping Hands is putting together a collection site at Silver Creek Transportation in Henderson,…
760 teams made up of almost 3,500 students will be working to figure out a math problem involving the amount of electric trucks out on the roads in the near future. The MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge is a program put out by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics…
To help relieve the area of massive backups in traffic, the Love’s in Ormond Beach, Florida, will not be allowing parking, of any kind, for trucks during Bike Week. Starting March 5 and going through March 15, trucks are allowed to gas up and go, they are not allowed to…
On the Swedish island, Gotland, the Smartroad Gotland consortium has successfully wirelessly charged a 40-ton electric truck. While stationary, this truck’s 20 kW receivers were able to charge with an efficiency of close to 90%. This is a result of Gotland’s dynamic wireless charging project involving public roads as charging…
When compared to January, orders for Class 8 tractors have dropped 20% in February. Some are saying that carriers are waiting to put in orders until the health crisis involving the coronavirus is over. This is the lowest February, with 14,400 preliminary units total, since 2010. Along with the rest…
The Arizona statehouse is continuing to work on raising the tax on fuel. The House Transportation Committee voted to move bill HB2899 along in the system that would raise almost $1.6 billion a year for roads. Fuel tax rates haven’t been changed since the early 90s and this bill would…