When shippers take the driver’s concerns and time into consideration, it’s easy to choose them to do business with. It’s as simple as providing a bathroom or a lounge for drivers. Transportation management systems are also a good way to further improve the relationship between the driver and shipper. If…
The newly created role of vice president has been given to Deborah Ruane Sparks in anticipation of the current Women in Trucking president retiring in the coming years. Sparks will assume this role in January 2020. Ellen Voie, the current WIT president founded the organizaiton in 2007 and has been…
These days, there is a change out there on how we spend our money on food and in stores. Restaurants are still very popular but food delivery apps are on the rise calling for smaller and more frequent deliveries. The same goes for retail businesses and the rise of e-commerce….
U.S. Xpress was founded by Max Fuller and Patrick Quinn in 1986 with a fleet of 48 trucks. Now, it’s the fifth-largest asset-based truckload carrier by revenue in the nation with 7,000 tractors and 15,500 trailers. It has helped turned Chattanooga, Tennessee, where its headquarters are located, into a transportation…
Mack Trucks revealed its all new electric refuse truck during Experience Day at its world headquarters in North Carolina. With its push towards sustainability, putting an electric refuse truck out on the roads seems like a good step toward that goal. Besides being a source of clean energy it also…
Australian country music star and trucking advocate Jayne Denham is the newest Women in Trucking’s Ambassador. She kicks off this new role with a concert during the opening ceremonies of the Women in Trucking’s 2019 Accelerate! Conference and Expo. The conference will be in Dallas, Texas at the Sheraton Dallas…
Truckers Against Trafficking’s Freedom Drivers Project is a mobile exhibit that educates people in the trucking industry and the general public about sex trafficking and how to identify and prevent it. The interior of the trailer exhibits artifacts from actual cases, a theatre station, and a lot of information on…
A. Duie Pyle out of Pennsylvania is teaming up with Oak Harbor Freight Lines out of Washington. For more than 95 years A. Duie Pyle has been a premier transportation company in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, and for 103 years Oak Harbor Freight has been covering the West Coast…
For not carrying or installing chains as required in British Columbia, commercial truckers will be fined higher prices starting Oct. 1. From previous winters, the fine for not carrying or installing chains when required was $121. Now, the fine for not carrying chains when required is $196 and the fine…
During the South Dakota Trucking Association’s Annual Convention in the Sioux Falls Convention Center, Wade Wagemann of YRC Freight was named the South Dakota Driver of the Year for 2019. Wagemann began his trucking career 27 years ago and has been with YRC Freight in Watertown for 16 years and…