Rotha Dawkins, the owner of Rotha’s Formal and Tuxedo in Thomasville, North Carolina, used to drive a big rig wearing red high heels. Her 15 years in the trucking industry supplied her with some background information to write her books. The first in the series is called “Red High Heels”…
For the past 3 years, the Central Piedmont Community College in Huntersville, North Carolina, has been helping fill the empty seats in the cabs of trucks. The class gives students hundreds of hours of behind-the-wheel training. When the college first started teaching new truckers the classes had 12 students, now…
Construction has begun for a new truck staging area in Mount Olive, North Carolina and will have spaces for 60 trucks, restrooms, scales, and refrigeration hookups. Located on the new Pickle Road connecting Talton Drive with Highway 55, this new area is a much-needed necessity for all the trucks that…
Mack Trucks revealed its all new electric refuse truck during Experience Day at its world headquarters in North Carolina. With its push towards sustainability, putting an electric refuse truck out on the roads seems like a good step toward that goal. Besides being a source of clean energy it also…
American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council has opened its 15th annual National Technician Skills Competitions. The TMCSuperTech 2019 is being held at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. From around the country, 132 technicians will be competing in three tracks, Heavy-Duty, Trailer, and Light/Medium Vehicles. Also, 49…
Daimler Trucks North America out of Cleveland, North Carolina, has marked a Freightliner new Cascadia as its 750,000th vehicle produced. During a ceremony at the facility, representatives from United Parcel Service (UPS) were presented with the keys. The plant was acquired in 1989 and currently employees more than 2,200 people….
Hubert Thompson, a trucker from Whiteville, N.C., won $200,000 on a Blazing 7’s ticket from the Washington Street Time Saver Food Store. The North Carolina Education Lottery’s Blazing 7’s game started last Tuesday with four top prizes of $200,000 available, three of which are still waiting to be won. Thompson…
Using her voice to help raise awareness, Ingrid Brown’s passion for driving and safety helped create a campaign about sharing roads with larger vehicles. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) created the “Our Roads, Our Safety” campaign to raise awareness about safety on the road with buses and large…
Next school year, Union High School students in Clinton, N.C., will get the chance to learn how to drive a truck and the logistics that come along with it. The Sampson Community College (SCC) and the Sampson County Schools have combined forces and came up with a pilot program for…