Ben Tobin | Louisville Courier Journal
A semi-truck driver died early Saturday morning in southern Indiana on Interstate 65 northbound after striking a disabled vehicle and swerving into trees, according to Indiana State Police.
According t…
TORONTO, Ont. – Trucking-related decisions often revolve around trucks, loads and drivers, but some fleets believe the strength of an invisible thread – in the form of telematics data – will decide which businesses grow and scale.The story of logistics…
A federal appeals court has overturned the convictions of former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood and two others in connection with a long-running scheme to defraud trucking companies.According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, a three-judge panel…
Fleet Source Ltd, the largest independent Driver CPC provider, has been recognised as Training Provider of the Year at the prestigious 2020 Talent in Logistics Awards.
The glittering event, now in its fourth year, was held for the first time onli…
TORONTO, Ont. — Stephanie Evans is the winner of this year’s J. D. Smith and Sons Leaders of Tomorrow scholarship through the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) Education Foundation.Evans is a life sciences student at McMaster University in Hamilton, O…
TORONTO, Ont. – Loblaw is scheduled to secure Canada’s first Freightliner eCascadia trucks, placing an order for five of the electric vehicles that will begin production in the first quarter of 2022.Call it the president’s choice.
One of the earliest e…
TORONTO, Ont. – Ever wonder what goes into the decisions behind which components come on your trailer?For an OEM, it’s a complex evaluation that takes many factors into account. Mark Ehrlich, senior director of engineering for Wabash National, gave a T…
TORONTO, Ont. – Jean-Claude Fortin, president and CEO of JE Fortin in St-Bernard de Lacolle, Que., has been named chairman of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).He begins a two-year term, replacing Scott Smith of JD Smith & Sons.
Jean-Claude Fort…
WINNIPEG, Man. – The Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) has elected Bernie Driedger, president of Portage Transport, as its 2020-2021 president, during a hybrid in-person/remote annual general meeting.The AGM was postponed from April 3 until Sept. 10….
New holiday destination opens to Sydneysiders from NEXT MONTH as New South Wales successfully suppresses COVID-19
The Northern Territory will open its borders to Australians from Greater Sydney
From October 9 Sydney will no…
A shortage of truck drivers combined with a surge in online and in-store shopping has made trucking unusually expensive.
Retailers are spending around 30% more than they did last year to move goods via truck.
The last time trucking rates so…
TORONTO, Ont. – Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau is praising workers in the trucking industry as the sector celebrates the National Trucking Week.“This year more than ever before you’ve been on the front lines. You have kept our country going, m…
A man was knocked through the window of a restaurant in a suspected hit and run crash in Leicester city centre in the early hours of this morning.
The casualty, who is in his 20s, is one of two people “seriously injured” when a blue VW Golf left the ro…
We’re good at meming things to death in the UK. You know, the kind of videos that the rest of the world really wouldn’t understand, but live on in our collective conscience as perfect little nuggets of what used to be. Surely in no other country would …
A truck driver who attacked a man in an East Yorkshire nightclub because he wiped his nose on his back has been spared jail.
Scott Johnson, 29, was on a night out at The Apollo nightclub in Bridlington on October 27 last year when he felt something bru…