Daseke names Chris Easter as chief operating officer
ADDISON, Texas — Daseke, a flatbed and specialized transportation and logistics provider in North America, has named Chris Easter as the company’s chief operating officer.
ADDISON, Texas — Daseke, a flatbed and specialized transportation and logistics provider in North America, has named Chris Easter as the company’s chief operating officer.
GILBERT, S.C. — Diesel Laptops, a distributor of commercial truck diesel diagnostic software, hardware and services, has launched a Virtual Diesel Technician Program. This program
ST. LOUIS — December was a month of growing uncertainty and severe declines in the U.S. financial markets as equity valuations fell (the Dow Jones
COLUMBUS, Ind. – The desire to get Class 8 trucks built and out the door for 2018 taxation benefits drove a build plan beat in
ALBANY, N.Y. — There’s always a straggler in the bunch. Unknown to many, New York state has not previously been enforcing the federal electronic logging
In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that trucking carriers can’t force independent contractors into arbitration. In New Prime Inc. v.
WELLINGTON, Utah — A speeding tractor-trailer skidded off a snow-slicked road Wednesday and crashed into a restaurant in a small Utah town, flattening the establishment
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kenworth Truck Co. and Toyota Motor North America are collaborating to develop 10 zero-emission Kenworth T680s powered by Toyota hydrogen fuel
This article first appeared in Truckload Authority, the magazine of the Truckload Carriers Association. The Freymiller family must be sorry to see 2018 come to
By CLIFF ABBOTT/The Trucker Staff “Did you see that idiot?” Drivers who still use CB radios often hear things like that. Chances are you have
When we reported the top 10 industry concerns as rated though a survey of professional truck drivers, motor carrier executives and other industry stakeholders, the
In this episode we cover… Heaviest load ever hauled. Motorists eat off road after big rig crash. Daimler shows off Level 2 truck. New tech
COLUMBUS, Ind. — Preliminary used Class 8 volumes (same dealer sales) slipped for a second consecutive month in December with a 7 percent decline, marking
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities in northern Arizona had a sweet hot mess on their hands after a tank trucker’s trailer detached from the truck and
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Six professional truck drivers — three company drivers and three owner-operators — have been chosen as finalists in the Truckload Carriers Association’s
PORTLAND, Ore. — The number of available trucks on the spot truckload freight market jumped 77 percent during the week ending January 12, well ahead
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Matthew Kendrick of Sacramento, California, a professional truck driver for Melton Truck Lines of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been named a Highway Angel
The final Class 8 new truck sales figures are in showing 2018 not as a record year in in terms of total sales, nor a
With a drop of 3.7 cents over the past week ending January 14, on-highway diesel prices have now fallen continuously for 13 weeks, a full
WASHINGTON — A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) highlights excessive vehicle speed as a persistent factor in nearly one-third of all