South Fla. Kenworth’s new facility
Kenworth of South Florida’s Riviera Beach location has a new, $2.7 million facility now housing its parts and service dealership. It features 12 service bays; two-hour truck diagnosis through the Kenworth PremierCare ExpressLane program; a 700-square-foot visual parts department supported by a large, fully stocked parts warehouse with ample inventory; a comfortable driver’s lounge; and […]
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Visualizing warehouses: robots that can observe and manipulate work environments
Though specialized robots have proven to be a viable alternative to human workers across several sectors within manufacturing since the 1960s, their presence in the supply chain has largely been non-existent until recently. This is because robots excel at work that is repetitive, which makes them a viable option on an assembly line, but dismal […]
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After early morning in blizzard-like conditions Chicagoland area woke up to freezing but beautiful morning
Blowing wind and freezing snow have created some dangerous driving conditions Wednesday morning.The wind and snow caused some problems for drivers especially truck drivers. Later on conditions improved and turned from early morning dangerous weather conditions into beautiful sunny day Weather conditions are expected to stay cold but clear and nice for most of the […]
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George Washington Bridge leads 10 most congested freight bottlenecks in U.S.
While Texas is home to the most congested freight corridors in the U.S., a New Jersey interchange is the worst bottleneck in the country, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s updated 2019 Top Truck Bottleneck List. The 2019 Top Truck Bottleneck List was compiled by ATRI using GPS data from nearly one million trucks at 300 congested locations across the […]
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Biodiesel tax credit could be saved by border wall deal
Lower diesel prices for truck stop owners and their trucking customers could hinge on the ability of Congress and President Donald Trump to hash out a deal by Friday’s deadline on a new spending bill. Last year Congress came close, but failed, to pass an extension to the U.S. Department of Energy’s $1/gallon biodiesel tax […]
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Colin Young has a message for Colorado State Patrol: Enforce increasing problem of unsafe passing on mountain roads
Reader Colin Young was westbound in Colorado, “coming down Loveland Pass,” he says. As you can see in the video installment (above) from Overdrive‘s Dashcam Central series of reader-submitted videos, a pickup makes a pass on the two-lane with just a hair of space available between himself, oncoming traffic and the nose of Young’s rig. Young called the […]
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Truck stop owners feeling the high-tech heat
Bob Wollenman, managing partner of Deluxe Truck Stop in St. Joseph, Missouri, is a single-unit independent truck stop operator who has rolled with the changing needs of drivers and trucking companies since he opened his doors in 1980. “NATSO members are being challenged by ever-changing dynamics in the industry,” Wollenman said at the opening of […]
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New England Motor Freight ( NEMF) declared shocking bankruptcy
Today New England Motor Freight Company shocked the trucking world by announcing that they are filling for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and they shutting down all operations immediately ! NEMF was 17th larges carrier i the U.S. with revenue over $400 million ! NEMF also had 10 subsidiary companies and they will be also shutting down. […]
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61 years trucking — and counting
“I was in the Army National Guard for Eight Years. I was too young for Korea, and too old for Vietnam. Never felt like I even served. I never got sent anywhere. “My grandad was a steamboat engineer. He worked on the Ohio and the Mississippi . At 80 he became a merchant marine so […]
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