Trucker News

Dozens of companies, from truckmakers like Daimler and Navistar to startups like Change and Embark-plus Uber’s Otto and Waymo, the erstwhile Google self-driving project-are pursuing what they believe is the next generation of trucking. Its business opportunity-and trucking is the physical embodiment of a thriving economy. Trucks moved more than 70% of all U.S. freight […]

Some were skeptical of Tesla’s ability to break into the trucking industry. Sysco hopes the trucks will help the company save on fuel and maintenance costs and reduce its environmental footprint. While some had doubts about Tesla’s ability to break into the trucking industry before it introduced the Semi, early orders indicate Tesla may beat

HOLLYWOOD, Ala. – Trucking company owners and drivers got together in Jackson County Monday morning to protest congressionally mandated Electronic Logging Devices, set to go into effect in a few days. Darrell and Audrey Wright own a trucking company based out of Hollywood in Jackson County. “It’s really small, it’s only three trucks,” Audrey Wright

GERING – Nebraska Transport Company, founded in Gering in 1973, recently underwent a major change, but most people will see no differences. NTC owner Brent Holliday, the second generation of the family to operate the business, has sold the LTL small package delivery division to Cross Country Freight Solutions, a family-owned company out of Bismarck,

Is planning a series of protests at over 40 locations across the country on Monday Dec. 4. The 19,000-member group ELD or I originally aimed to hold protests in every state and Charlie Claburn, one of the organizers for the group’s national effort, noted that larger states will have multiple rallies. We’re going to have

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA – A Mount Crawford based trucking company that formerly hauled United States mail and it holding company, as well as four of its most senior officers, the President, Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, were all sentenced this week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Clearing agents and freight forwarders have accused the foreign shipping companies of exploiting and extorting Nigerian importers through the introduction of arbitrary charges on a yearly basis. This is even as the agents expressed fear of a new shipping levy come 2018. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively, a customs agent Izuchukwu Obasi, explained that

The group formerly known as the Blockchain in Trucking Alliance has expanded its mission and been renamed the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, reflecting its widened focus on all forms of transportation. BiTA is dedicated to setting standards for blockchain applications developed for transportation. The alliance was formed by tech and transportation executives to create a

AUSTIN – Come mid-December, commercial truckers will be required to use a software system to log driving time, but despite claims that it will save lives, a Texas congressman wants to delay implementation. U.S. Rep. Brian Babin, R-Woodville, argues that implementing the Electronic Logging Device mandate will cost truckers $2 billion annually and that claims