COLUMBUS, Ind. – ACT Research has increased its commercial vehicle forecast across the board in October.“Central to our growing bullishness on current activity translating into the next up-cycle are the non-traditional drivers of current freight market…
With just a month to go until the US election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule during the week coronavirus came to the White House.After Mr Trump tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for Covid-19, we take a look a…
If your neighborhood is like most locales in the United States, there’s a thing that’s hard to unsee once you notice: The trucks that empty your blue recycling bin look just like the trucks that collect your trash.
So – they are taking your stuff to be…
MONTREAL, Que. – Jean-Claude Fortin recalls precisely the day he obtained his CDL. It was March 11, 1961. He was 17 years old.Decades later, he finds himself serving as the latest chairman of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).
“I have been in trucki…
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Society and industry have come to think of disruption as a positive change associated with innovation, but what the trucking industry is experiencing now is “old school” disruption.Avery Vise, FTR’s vice-president of trucking made t…
New Jersey nursing home where 17 bodies were found crammed into a tiny morgue at the height of the coronavirus pandemic is sued by nephew of resident who died from the virus
Brian Roberts filed his lawsuit against the Andover Sub…
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Tech stocks extended their worst rout since March, with Nasdaq futures tracking for an over 3% decline at Tuesday’s open. A plunge of that magnitude at the close would bring a three-session loss in the Nasdaq to the brink of a corr…
US senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts has defeated Joe Kennedy III in a Democratic primary.
Mr Markey had harnessed support from progressive leaders to overcome the challenge from a younger rival who is a member of America’s most famous political f…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A strike by Chile truckers is hitting exports of salmon, fruit, meat and wine from the South American food producer to the United States, Europe and Asia, trade groups told Reuters on Tuesday.
Trucks block a road as a driver w…
(Thursday Market Open) Some welcome news on the jobs front might give stocks just enough support today to push them toward another test of record highs.
Initial jobless claims last week totaled 963,000, the government said. That’s the first tim…
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Congress passed the Great American Outdoors Act, which will fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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US president Donald Trump has refused to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffed at polls showing him lagging behind his Democratic riva…
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TORONTO, Ont. – Neighborhood fireworks were celebrating Canada Day yesterday, but trade organizations were also celebrating the new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that now governs every load to cross the border.About 10 million trucks cross the C…