2020 was certainly a special year. A recently released report from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) can give us some insight into how the year that most people stayed home impacted the trucking industry. Facts & Figures The entire […]

The DAT Truckload Volume Index (TVI) for van freight was 215 in December, a 4.0% decline compared to November and 3.6% lower year over year. Graph: HDT; Source: DAT December produced the first month-over-month positive change in spot truckload van […]

(Left to right) Taki Darakos of Pitt Ohio, Scott Ewell of H.R. Ewell, and Adam Wolk of Challenger Motor Freight discuss supply chain constraints at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Dialogue. Photo: Vesna Brajkovic Vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and distributors a like all […]

A trucker’s dash cam captures the winter weather mishaps of fellow drivers on a snow-packed Colorado road. The dash cam clip was shared on Friday by Reddit user Jacob_Freightliner, who says that he caught the clip in Colorado, between Strasburg […]

This week, retail giant Walmart announced that they are hoping to add to their Private Fleet by growing a pilot program that allows store and warehouse workers to train for 12 weeks to become truckers. In a January 18 announcement, […]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering increasing the amount of readily-available assets (mostly cash) that a broker must have on hand to pay fleets who have completed deliveries for them, as written on a proposal in the Federal […]

The trucking industry has been hard at work these last few months due to the holiday season. As a direct result, fleets were scrambling to get more bodies into their trucks. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has the numbers. […]