Starting Monday, June 8th, the Miami truck route running from Main Street to 5th Avenue will be shut down for a few weeks. The construction will include repairing the sanitary sewer slip lines and has been in the planning stages for a couple of months now. Detour signs will be…
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…
There is a program out there where truck drivers get to interact with classrooms full of kids. This program is called Trucker Buddy and is a fairly simple thing for truckers to keep up with. Just recently, a trucker named Android Pfloyd stopped by Palm Bay Magnet School in Melbourne,…
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is starting construction on a $13 million store in Baldwin, Florida. This new stop will be located at northwest Interstate 10 and U.S. 301 and will include an over 11,000 square foot convenience store (which will include trucker amenities) and an over 10,000 square…
There is a demand for truck drivers out there and Marion Technical College out of Marion County, Florida is doing its part to fill the need. Students are learning the skills needed to become professional truck drivers. A simulator is used to teach students the hazards that can occur out…
Teaming up with Super Bowl security this year will be U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Together, they will be using truck-mounted x-ray machines to scan all trucks coming into the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. As a boost to security, they will be scanning everything from food products…
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, out of Florida, is hoping to change federal regulations for those trucks that are hauling produce. He has brought about the “Freedom from Regulating Edible Supplies and Horticulture Trucking Act” or the FRESH Trucking Act. Coming out of Florida, a citrus-producing state, this new regulation would…
There are a couple of Florida bills on the table that would make it mandatory for truckers to be trained on how to identify and prevent human trafficking. A new bill, to go along with another filed in November, would require publicly-funded commercial driving schools to train truck drivers (and…
The Booster Stadium in Ocala, Florida now comes equipped with a CDL driving pad thanks to the Marion County School District and local businesses. 15 months ago the school district collaborated with Marion Technical College and launched a CDL program, trying to fill the trucker shortage in their area. This…
The LGBT Truckers are gearing up for their drive to ride with pride. This group of truckers was in Florida over the holidays showing off the Rainbow Rider; their rainbow map wrapped truck. They are getting a lot of response from the communities they visit and when they are driving…