The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and Attorney General Ashely Moody have teamed up to create the Highway Heroes campaign. Together, they will be asking half a million truck drivers to join the fight against human trafficking. They will be mailing out materials to Florida’s CDL holders…
Starting this week, the Wyoming Department of Transportation is working on more winter truck parking along I-80. This project will bring almost 100 new spaces to both the Fort Steele Rest Area and the Quealy Dome. When winter conditions get bad and I-80 has to be shut down, these new…
Proctor & Gamble have named the five who have been given the title of “Driver of the Year” and one of those titles belongs to Althea Thompson of Hogan Transport. Thompson has been driving with Hogan since 2011 and feels like part of the family there. In order to qualify…
The Kansas Department of Transportation’s KanDrive is a traveler information tool and has recently been updated to give trucks more useful information. This mobile-friendly site gives those driving along Kansas highways information regarding winter roads, flooded roadways, crashes, closed highways, and much more. The commercial vehicle mode allows truckers to…
Red Kap and Cracker Barrel are making sure truckers are finding a warm meal while out there on the road. It’s easy for a trucker to skip a meal and it’s not always easy for truckers to find a good meal while making deliveries these days. Together, these two have…
For the month of September, there was an increase in truck tonnage, says the ATA. According to the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, there was an increase of 6.7% after a 5.3 fall in August. The trucking industry is going through some hills and valleys right now with…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is hosting a free virtual listening session about property carrier brokers. There are currently three pending petitions out there pertaining to specific property carrier broker regulations. The FMCSA wants to hear what the public has to say about these brokers and what their concerns…
Drivewyze is now offering Safety+, a new feature that offers customizable driving alerts and coaching features. This new addition is delivered through Drivewyze’s original software platform and requires no additional software to be installed. Proactive speed alerts can tell truckers when they are going at least 5 miles over the…
Truck driving is one of those jobs only certain people can do, especially when the weather turns and the roads get treacherous. It’s not just the weather that makes the roads difficult, sometimes roads are not built for big rigs and problems tend to follow. Here are some of America’s…
A truck driver has reached out to Elon Musk and Starlink asking if they will be providing fast and reliable internet out on the road. Musk replied with a simple, “yes”. The Starlink Satellite Internet system Musk has recently shot into our outer atmosphere promises fast speeds and great internet…