TruckCenters Inc. announces NTDAW prize winner

Oct 03, 2011

Truck Centers Inc., a Midwestern Daimler Trucks of North America dealer with seven locations, announced that Bill Stewart of St. Louis was the winner of a Rand McNally IntelliRoute TND 500 Model Trucker GPS system given away in recognition of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.

Stewart’s employer, BMS Trucking, is based in Illinois.

Bee-Line Transport operates a 60-truck regional fleet out of Houston, Texas. When we caught up with safety director James Jeter this week to recap the past year, the fleet was fresh off dealing with last week's torrential weather across Texas and other parts of the Southeast. 'It was almost a total shutdown,' he said. 'We got people home or to a place where they could ride it out. Everybody's safe -- no accidents, no problems. We were pretty worn, though. We spent hours on the phone and through messaging systems keeping up with everybody.'

12 months in, two fleets recall the ups and downs of trucking in a pandemic

February 26, 2021

New technology developments are helping fleet managers reduce safety busywork to have more time to focus on training activities that have the biggest impact.

Removing busywork pays dividends in fleet safety

CCJ explores the Top 4 areas where new technology is reducing busywork for fleet safety managers to be more effective.

With serial production of its electric eCascadia and eM2 set for next year, DTNA earlier this month unveiled Detroit electric ePowertrain.

Daimler, Cummins partnership puts writing on the wall for DD5, DD8 engines

With COVID vaccine ‘peak season’ nigh, can trucking keep up with looming load demand?

Locomation is planning to initially roll out autonomous vehicle technology using a convoy.

Floodgates wide open for investment in trucking and logistics

GOODYEAR BRINGS ADVANCED TIRE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY TO NORFOLK SOUTHERN

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View, sort and download the trucking industry’s most comprehensive ranking of for-hire carriers in North America, based on a blend of metrics including fleet size, annual revenue and number of drivers.

Take Control of Toll: How Violations Work and How to Minimize Fleet Impact

With the rapid adoption of cashless tolling across the country and the associated benefit in transponder deployment for operations and the company’s bottom line, it is now more important than ever for fleets to develop an informed toll management strategy