The executives at Walmart have sent out a message to its fleet of truck drivers voicing their concern about the driver’s health during the coronavirus scare. Besides telling all of their employees to stay home if they are sick and to cover their mouths when they cough, truckers were told…
Walmart is looking for more than 500 good and experienced drivers to add to its fleet this year. There are many benefits to driving for Walmart where the average trucker gets $87,500 per year. You also get training pay and activity pay along with a weekly schedule so you know…
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…
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…
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…
The Utah Transportation Commission has agreed to give additional funds to build an escape truck ramp on U.S. 89. This dangerous chunk of road is getting a concrete apron and denser restraint system. The project initially started with a $4 million budget but an additional $1 million was added for…