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Connecticut governor backs off of trucks-only toll plan

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, in an op-ed piece published in the Connecticut Post Saturday, Feb. 16, seemingly is reconsidering a trucks-only tolling plan he campaigned on during his run for office last year. Despite not having a specific plan for the tolls, the newly elected governor campaigned to enact a trucks-only toll similar to what is in place […]

Truck recalls exceed sales, year in and year out

In the past several months alone, more than 35,000  trucks manufactured by Paccar, Daimler, Autocar and Navistar were recalled for defects involving seatbelts and clutch issues, according to news reports and  NHTSA documents. That’s  a lot of trucks, almost double the number of Class 8 trucks sold in January 2019. Read more at : https://www.freightwaves.com/news/economics/truck-recalls-exceed-sales Article […]

Owner-operator of the Year finalist Danny Jewell still rolling after a half-century

Danny Jewell is one of three finalists for the 2018 Owner-Operator of the Year award, produced by the Truckload Carriers Association and Overdrive. The winner, who will receive a $25,000 cash prize, will be announced in March at TCA’s annual convention in Las Vegas. The other two finalists are Kevin Kocmich and Robert Roth. Danny Jewell, […]

China may be first in large-scale autonomous vehicle adoption

The promise of driving has been looming over the transportation industry for the better part of this decade, but full-scale commercial adoption of the technology is still a topic of contention. This is because there are simply too many factors that play a role in deciding the roadmap to adoption, with technology development being the […]

Soaking rains, flooding possible across the Southeast this week can cause problems for drivers

Typically, snow and ice are what slow down truckers the most during the winter, and this will probably happen in some parts of the country. But this week flooding will be an additional threat to drivers, mainly in the Southeast. There’s a good chance of road closures, as well as property damage to homes and […]

Don Christner presents ‘Open range trucking in Wyoming’

Trucker and sometime Overdrive Extra blog contributor Don Christner added the  video to the Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted dashcam videos. “We have some open range in Wyoming,” he says, and the road he was traveling shown above passes through some of it. Read more at : https://www.overdriveonline.com/don-christner-presents-open-range-hwy-in-wyoming/ Article by : Overdrive Staff Source and credits : https://www.overdriveonline.com/

Inside the aerodynamic design of the New Cascadia

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. When Daimler Trucks North America (OTC: DMLRY) introduced its 2020 model year Freightliner New Cascadia at a Las Vegas event in January, all attention was focused on the eye-opening headline: it is a Level 2 autonomous truck. While that is the sexy part of the truck, an even sexier headline for […]

Cool Peterbilt in winter time !

Log truck is 2000 Peterbilt with a cat 379 b model engine has the original paint job on it from 19 years ago with only 261,000 miles on her and had a self loader on her till about 3 years ago that’s why such low miles. Photo by : https://www.facebook.com/jeremiah.wheeler.71?fref=gs&dti=344043152742837&hc_location=group_dialog

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