Bike Week is once again rolling into Daytona Beach, Florida March 5-14. Nearby in Ormond Beach, at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Interstate 95, local Love’s Travel Stop #316 has announced that truck parking will not be allowed during this time. This is being done to help keep traffic…
The Truckload Carriers Association has named Morgan Kirkland a Highway Angel for his impressive truck driving skills that help divert a major catastrophe. Kirkland was traveling along US Hwy 90 in Florida during the early morning hours when he came upon a bridge that was narrowed down to a single…
Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida and Ryder System are working together to create a new patch. The supply chain patch is for girl scouts K-12 across the country. “Girl Scout Cookies and the Supply Chain” is the newest program in the system and teaches these girls about the supply chain,…
Love’s Travel Stops has opened two new locations in the south. The Amarillo, Texas location is just off Interstate 40, has 100 truck parking spaces, 7 diesel bays, 5 showers, laundry facilities, and a CAT scale. The Baldwin, Florida location is just off Interstate 10, has 94 truck parking spaces,…
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…
Hurricane Sally is making its way to the Gulf Coast causing the U.S. Coast Guard to issue a port condition Zulu for the coastal ports in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. When a condition Zulu is called, all port waterfronts are shut down with a few exemptions to make sure people…
Brooksville, Florida couple, Dianne and Bill McCarthy are taking it upon themselves to make sure truckers working hard out there on the road are taken care of. These two know what it’s like living the trucker life and know that during this pandemic is can be tricky to find food…
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy has shown us that those polled in Florida have high opinions for truck drivers and their trucks. A survey was conducted from July 20-23 that asked those on the Florida voter registration list their opinions about trucks before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 625…
The female truckers group, Real Women in Trucking, were handing out PPE to truckers on Florida’s Turnpike this past weekend. Parked out at the Turkey Lake Plaza, these women were making sure the truckers going through had the necessary personal protective equipment to make sure they stayed safe and healthy….
TravelCenters of America has a turnaround initiative out there to quickly grow its footprint around the country to better serve its customers and professional drivers. They have announced that they will be turning three existing travel centers into TA-branded sites. The newest opening happened on June 2 in Vermillion, South…