With certain technologies becoming a necessity in the trucking industry (ELDs), there are many new and improved ways for your fleet to stay safe and save money. It’s all about the data. Telematics can do calculations for drivers so they know exactly where they are going, how long it will…
At the Southern Kentucky Community and Technical College in Franklin, the school’s very own driving course just opened up. To further aid the students, four trucks and four trailers were donated to the school. With trucking jobs in high demand and a lack of drivers out there, this is good…
With truck driving being the backbone of our country, there are good trucking jobs to be had all over the place. AdvisorSmith did a study that ranked 384 U.S. cities to find out if its worth it for truckers to head there looking for jobs. According to the study, the…
With a traditional tree planting ceremony, Hino Motors Ltd. had the grand opening of its nearly 1,000,000 sq. ft. facility in Mineral Wells, WV. Along with the new facility comes 250 jobs for the community and they plan on rolling out a lot of new trucks. All of Hino’s class…
Over a three month period, TravelCenters of America, in partnership with High Noon Sales, have been selling merchandise for the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund (SCF). For each item sold at their participating TA, Petro and TA Express stations, TravelCenters donated $1 to the fund. This non-profit organization…
With electric trucks being the talk of the town out there in the trucking industry these days, they have yet to catch on for long-haul trucking. Well, MIT has developed a plug-in hybrid engine that can operate just as well as a diesel engine, is quite a bit cheaper, and…
Soon, two women from Amarillo, Texas will be graduating from the Amarillo College Truck Driving Academy. With an industry that is mostly made up of men, this college highly encourages female truckers because that is who the trucking employers they work with are looking for. Rosa Rosas, one of the…
The newest driver-assist (not driverless) technology, Copilot by Pronto, controls steering, braking, and throttling. This is a whole new kind of cruise control for trucks that works with power steering, collision mitigation, lane centering and traffic awareness. This safety technology helps relieve the mental strain of being on the road…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a PDF on the Clearinghouse website showing query prices for carriers to use on their current and future drivers. An individual plan, for one driver, costs $1.25 while a bundled plan for 7,500 drivers costs $9,375. A query is a search into…
In an industry that moves 70% of freight tonnage across the U.S. and with a revenue that topped $796 billion last year, it’s safe to say that trucking is the backbone of America. Without trucks our supermarket shelves would be empty, hospitals would be short on medical supplies, there would…