trucks

Staying safe on the road is extremely important. After all, you’re driving an 80,000-pound hunk of metal, rubber and flammable materials. However, whether due to exhaustion or in an effort to save time, many truck drivers ignore basic job safety when they’re off the road. Unfortunately, an 86-year-old Kansas trucker learned this the hard way

As a long-haul trucker, you’ll encounter plenty of inclement winter weather over the next few months. Cold temperatures and frozen precipitation not only make for an uncomfortable ride, but a potentially dangerous one. After all, one patch of black ice can turn an otherwise uneventful trip into a nightmare. Fortunately, a little preparation and awareness

You check into a motel for the evening for a break from sleeping in your truck. The next morning, you wake up to find your truck is gone. At this point, the merchandise has probably already been offloaded and is well on its way to the black market. Stories like this occur every day in

If you’ve had your fill of trucking regulations in recent years, you won’t like the latest changes under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act that was signed into law last summer. As of October 1, the trucking industry has a laundry list of new rules to abide by. These include

On September 18, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments from fuel producers that California’s low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) is unfair to out-of-state producers. As such, California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) will continue its agenda to cut the state’s usage of petroleum and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.