Freightwaves has added a third installment of dangerous roads for truckers. If possible, avoid these: There are dual bridges on Interstate 80 in Joliet, Illinois that have been tagged as being in serious or critical condition. They carry somewhere near 12,000 big trucks every day, have steep grades, and have…
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 Lieber Correctional Institution in Charleston County, South Carolina, has inmates who are earning their CDL by “driving” on the open road. In an effort to push the state’s reentry project for inmates the SCDS Director Bryan Stirling brought in a truck simulator to teach the inmates about trucking. The…
NFI, a supply chain solutions provider out of New Jersey, has acquired G&P Trucking Company, Inc., out of South Carolina. This acquisition will expand NFI’s footprint in the southeast. It will be adding 370 tractors and 3,000 trailers to NFI’s asset-based transportation fleet. Through the ports in Savannah, Norfolk, and…
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores have recently opened two new stops, one in Calhoun, Georgia and one in Elgin, South Carolina. The Georgia stop is located off Interstate 75 and adds 93 truck parking spots to Gordon County. The South Carolina stop is located off Interstate 20 and adds…