DAT: Truck count rises 7 percent, loads drop 10 percent as rates slip
PORTLAND, Ore. — Truckload capacity continues to build in the first weeks of 2019, and national average spot rates for dry van, reefers, and flatbeds
PORTLAND, Ore. — Truckload capacity continues to build in the first weeks of 2019, and national average spot rates for dry van, reefers, and flatbeds
COLUMBUS, Ind. — According to the recently released ACT Research’s Transportation Digest, the Class 8 truck market started 2019 with powerful positive momentum from a
ARLINGTON, Va. — American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 6.6 percent in all of 2018 – the largest annual
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Traffic through Alabama’s largest city won’t be normal for months as the state’s busiest road closes for a construction project beginning Monday.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Daniel Barnett, Denny Cattell and Mike Johnson have been recognized as Highway Angels for willingness to stop at the scene of any
COLUMBUS, Ind. — The latest release of ACT Research’s For-Hire Trucking Index showed the Volume Index still in negative territory below the 50 neutral mark
HARTFORD, Conn. — Opponents to highway tolls in Connecticut plan to make it known they oppose new legislation that would authorize electronic tolling. Pat Sasser,
RICHMOND, Va. — The American Trucking Association hinted Thursday it may sue the State of Virginia over legislation that proposes charging tolls on Interstate 81.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — U.S. Xpress Enterprises says it is planning to exit its U.S.- Mexico cross border investment as part of its ongoing capital allocation
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Thursday that a driver is in custody after crashing a tractor-trailer into a motel in northwest Atlanta and
ADDISON, Texas — Daseke, a flatbed and specialized transportation and logistics provider in North America, has named Chris Easter as the company’s chief operating officer.
GILBERT, S.C. — Diesel Laptops, a distributor of commercial truck diesel diagnostic software, hardware and services, has launched a Virtual Diesel Technician Program. This program
ST. LOUIS — December was a month of growing uncertainty and severe declines in the U.S. financial markets as equity valuations fell (the Dow Jones
COLUMBUS, Ind. – The desire to get Class 8 trucks built and out the door for 2018 taxation benefits drove a build plan beat in
ALBANY, N.Y. — There’s always a straggler in the bunch. Unknown to many, New York state has not previously been enforcing the federal electronic logging
In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that trucking carriers can’t force independent contractors into arbitration. In New Prime Inc. v.
WELLINGTON, Utah — A speeding tractor-trailer skidded off a snow-slicked road Wednesday and crashed into a restaurant in a small Utah town, flattening the establishment
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kenworth Truck Co. and Toyota Motor North America are collaborating to develop 10 zero-emission Kenworth T680s powered by Toyota hydrogen fuel
This article first appeared in Truckload Authority, the magazine of the Truckload Carriers Association. The Freymiller family must be sorry to see 2018 come to
By CLIFF ABBOTT/The Trucker Staff “Did you see that idiot?” Drivers who still use CB radios often hear things like that. Chances are you have