Tag: Trucking industry

May 10, 2023

U.S. renewable diesel production took a number of steps forward over the past couple of weeks as two more facilities came online and another ramped up, with refiners seeking to meet the burgeoning competition for trucking’s alternative fuel dollars. Alternatives […]

November 22, 2022

The trucking industry has its fair share of challenges right now — from high fuel prices to worker shortages. One solution to help ease some pressure may lie in pursuing government tax incentive programs, such as the Work Opportunity Tax […]

October 11, 2022

Thirty years ago, Dee Sova had a choice: go to nursing school or obtain her commercial driver license. Her husband at the time convinced her to join him on the road, so she chose the trucking industry. And when her […]

March 16, 2022

Today, the trucking industry’s charitable arm – the Trucking Cares Foundation – announced it was donating more than $40,000 to a trio of organizations involved in Ukrainian humanitarian relief efforts. “The war unfolding in Ukraine is a terrible tragedy,” said […]

November 3, 2021

Truck driver Chris Wagner pulled his big rig into a grain processing plant in Sidney, Ohio, on a recent afternoon to pick up a load bound for the Chicago suburbs. He’d lost his scheduled place in line because of delays […]

December 16, 2020

The economic fallout from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a number of carriers to consolidate. “The pandemic, and resulting conditions, has accelerated the trend of acquisitions in the trucking space,” Spencer Tenney, president of the transportation merger […]

November 24, 2020

Economic indicators suggest the trucking industry could be poised for growth in 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic caused a topsy-turvy year in 2020 marked by unpredictable demand and continued uncertainty in the driver pool. “The overall outlook of the trucking […]

September 13, 2017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. trucking trade group and truck maker Navistar International Corp (NAV.N) urged a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday to include self-driving commercial trucks in proposed legislation intended to speed autonomous vehicles to market. The House last […]