Among many things, the pandemic has reminded society how indispensable professional drivers and their work are to our everyday lives. With businesses shut down and people sheltering in place, commercial drivers have gone beyond the call of duty to cont…
“Shut ’em down!”
Talk of a nationwide driver shutdown has been echoing around the country for years – most notably and recently on social media sites. But these angry words have done little to coalesce truck drivers into a potent force that can bring …
Trucking HR Canada has launched an online learning center offering courses on how to deal with workplace harassment and violence.The training will help employers meet new Canada Labour Code requirements under Bill C-65, Trucking HR said Monday.
As of J…
An emotionally broken truck driver has been awarded about $1.6 million in damages by the Supreme Court of British Columbia more than five years after he was involved in a fatal collision with a young drunken motorist.Court records show the head-on coll…
MILTON, Ont. – The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada has officially opened its annual awards program, accepting entries for honors recognizing drivers, dispatchers, fleet graphics, and more.Highlights of the annual event include the addition of mem…
Feeling blue? Ivanka leaves her D.C. home in a stylish navy coat after the Republicans’ disastrous defeat in Georgia runoffsIvanka, 39, was seen heading to work around 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday wearing a navy wool coat by Carolina Herrera, matching h…
‘Depressed’ COVID testing site worker, 26, jumps from a Tennessee overpass with her 21-month-old son in her arms, killing them bothTonisha Barker, 26, jumped to her death from I-40 overpass in Madison County with her 21-month-old son, Jonathan Jones, i…
GREAT BARRINGTON — At 92, Ruth Houghton, who died in a car crash last week, remained a dynamo. While actively supporting charities and arts organizations, Houghton helped guide The Fresh Air Fund for more than 50 years and served on the board of the Ne…
GREAT BARRINGTON — Officials have identified a town woman who was killed Monday afternoon in a two-vehicle wreck on Route 7.
Ruth Houghton, 92, died at the scene after the 2008 Subaru she was driving collided with a pickup truck as she exited Lovers La…
A truck driver has been arrested on felony charges after reports he was driving a vehicle playing similar audio to the Nashville motorhome that exploded on Christmas Day, a Tennessee sheriff’s office has said. On Sunday, residents in Walter Hill …
PICTURED: ‘Copycat’ driver of box truck arrested for ‘blaring spooky message urging people to evacuate’ – as cops say he had no connection to Christmas bombing 30 miles away in NashvilleJames Turgeon, 33, was arrested on Sunday in Rutherford County, Te…
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LONDON — Hundreds of stranded truck drivers hoped to get the green light to leave Britain on Dec. 22 as the country found itself increasingly isolated and its trade bo…
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Devon Dalio, the 42-year-old son of hedge fund founder Ray Dalio, died in a car crash this week, a family spokesperson said Friday.
The family spokesperson confirmed the death in a Thursday afternoon crash to Hearst Connecticut …
A head-on collision killed the driver of a pickup truck in Maryland’s Charles County Friday morning.
The 6:20 a.m. crash on Md. Route 5/Mattawoman Beantown Road at Pinefield Drive in Waldolf closed the northbound lanes all morning. The road opened aro…
TORONTO, Ont. – Despite shutdowns related to the Covid-19 pandemic, Serco’s DriveTest set a record number of monthly commercial road tests this year.The new record came in October, the first month DriveTest completed more than 1,000 commercial road tes…