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A new partnership between Austin Peay State University, Lockhart Trucking Academy, and ProTrain is expanding truck driver training opportunities in the Clarksville, Tennessee area.
The free pre-show registration deadline for the Mid-America Trucking Show is coming up Thursday, Feb. 28. After this deadline, registrations online or onsite will cost $10.
A coalition of groups representing livestock haulers and others has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for more lenient hours of service regulations.
As he did about a year ago, President Donald Trump included improving the nation’s infrastructure in Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address to Congress.
The American Transportation Research Institute this week released an updated list of state and local idling regulations to help truck drivers avoid fines for idling too long.
“Thank God for Mississippi” is a widely known dig across the southeast. It’s an unfair remark about the state’s historical standing near the bottom across many important metrics like education, healthcare and income.
I’m a sucker for today’s consumer technology. Being able to yell at a puck-sized device from across the room to play a specific song, turn on or off lights or lock the front door are conveniences I didn’t even know I needed just a few years ago when home assistants were first introduced.
A group of researchers this month issued a report on the effects of the electronic logging device mandate, and they reached two main conclusions: The use of ELDs has not reduced the rate of truck crashes, but the frequency of speeding violations, particularly among the small carrier segment, has increased since the mandate took effect.
Class 8 orders for January fell to 15,800 as fleets took a wait-and-see attitude on freight demand and following massive orders in 2018 that mostly filled the system for this year, according to ACT Research Co. ACT cited preliminary data it would revise as needed once final numbers from the truck makers were available.
