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This image provided by the Office of Emergency Management shows firefighters standing near the collapsed part of I-95 in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. The elevated section of Interstate 95 has collapsed early Sunday after a vehicle caught fire, closing the main north-south highway on the East Coast and threatening to upend travel in parts […]

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — A new survey conducted by the Conversion Interactive Agency and People. Data. Analytics (PDA) peels back the curtain on truck driving jobs and how today’s market conditions are affecting drivers. KEY SURVEY TAKEAWAYS Truck driver job seekers have decreased since the Fall 2022 Driver Survey. This number is down 6% from the […]

ORAN, Mo. — Finloc 2000 Inc. announced June 1 that Anthony Petitte has been chosen to head the company’s FinPark division as COO, where he will run all truck parking operations in the U.S. and Canada. FinPark offers a technology application solution to an issue that has plagued the trucking industry for the past three […]

April 2023 sales of new Class 8 trucks on the U.S. market were the highest since 2006 and represented the second-best April of the century to date, according to data received from Wards Intelligence. Sales for the first four months make 2023 the best first third of the year in the past 17 years. Manufacturers […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — One of the most-traveled interstates in the nation — Interstate 40 — has a new, 84-space parking lot in the Memphis metropolitan area. The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, May 30, near West Memphis, Arkansas, to celebrate the new facility. ARDOT estimates that more than […]

TOYKO — German truck maker Daimler and Japan’s top automaker Toyota said Tuesday they will work together on new technologies, including using hydrogen fuel, to help fight climate change. The companies said Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., whose top stakeholder is Daimler Truck, and Hino Motors, the truck maker in the Toyota group, will […]

WASHINGTON — On April 19, 6,829 commercial motor vehicles were inspected throughout Canada, Mexico and the U.S. as part of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Brake Safety Day. According to a news release, inspectors found brake-related critical vehicle inspection items on 11.3% of the vehicles inspected, indicating those vehicles were unfit and unsafe for […]

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to veto a move by Congress to rescind strict new Environmental Protection Agency rules aimed at big rigs. The House approved a measure on Tuesday, May 23, that would cancel a part of the EPA’s Clean Trucks Plan that went into effect in March. The Senate voted to […]

WASHINGTON — The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act has moved one step closer to fruition. On Tuesday, May 23, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure passed an amended version of the act by a vote of 60-4. Known officially as HR2367, the parking act would provide $755 million over three years to expand truck parking […]

WASHINGTON — Arkansas Republican Rep. Rick Crawford and Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar have introduced new legislation to help attract more truck drivers to the industry. And already the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA) are lauding the new measure, which has been dubbed the DRIVE Safey Integrity Act. The bill […]