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ARLINGTON, Va., July 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations revealed the official 2019 National Truck Driver Appreciation Week logo and thank-a-trucker toolkit. The association also announced Trucking Day at Nationals Park, an event in which professional truck drivers will sing the National Anthem, receive mid-game recognitions from the fans, and participate in on-field activities.

SACRAMENTO The California Transportation Commission allocated more than $533 million for 120 State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) projects throughout California, including more than $229 million for 42 fix-it-first projects funded by Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. Projects allocated SB 1 funds at the June CTC meeting will improve 11 bridges, more than 346 lane miles of pavement, upgrade 547 congestion reducing devices, and repai

Cabless trucks do not have a drivers cabin. These trucks are completely autonomous trucks and can be attached to any kind of trailers. Trucks are a prominent and reliable mode of transport for freight and commodities. Adoption of autonomous vehicles is expected to lead to significant reduction in expenditure over labor, significant decline in delivery time, and notable increase in vehicle performance and efficiency. Cabless trucks have reduced weight and smaller size, which makes them

DETROIT - The Michigan Department of Transportation recently announced it will begin 30 construction projects Monday around Metro Detroit. MDOT expects the projects to be completed between the middle and end of July. Check out the complete list of freeway and road closures below: Beginning the week of July 8: I-75: Oakland - NB/SB I-75 ramp to NB M-24, ramp closed, Mon 5am-Thu 5pm. Oakland - NB M-24 ramp to I-75, ramp closed, Mon 5am-Thu 5pm. Oakland - EB/WB E. Holly ramp to SB 75, ramp close

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers have written rules of the road that companies designing self-driving commercial vehicles will need to follow to truck commerce across the state. Significant use of the vehicles may be years away. But Louisiana's new regulations take effect Aug. 1, recently signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The legislation received near-unanimous support from lawmakers who want to try to lure companies that build the trucks and to get ready for self-driving vehicles.

Transportation and logistics are the life blood of the economy, moving goods over the nations road, rails, and waterways in the economic equivalent of arteries. Thats one reason investors pay close attention to the sector, believing it is a leading indicator for the economy. On Tuesday, Loop Capital Markets analyst Jeff Kauffman cut his ratings on four logistics companies because of weak demand for road and rail services.

Hubert Thompson of Whiteville won $200,000 in the Blazing 7's game of the North Carolina Education Lottery. RALEIGH, N.C. Hubert Thompson, a truck driver from Whiteville, delivered a $200,000 prize to his retirement account Friday after winning the first top prize in the North Carolina Education Lottery's new Blazing 7s game. Thompson, whos been driving trucks for 41 years, said he likes to try new games, so when he saw the $5 Blazing 7s tickets at Tim

Eassons transportation group. Thanks to the very kind gentleman that was driving truck on 401 my son was getting upset being stuck in the traffic jam due to construction by big apple and the guy honked his horn and made him smile then as we got further up and came to a stop he stopped his truck and handed damion a hat made his day big smiles for our little man topped our day with toronto zoo and chuckie cheese this was very awesome day. Thanks for making his day respect truckers its not easy

The U.S. Farm Belt is fighting to prevent an industry nightmarethe loss of its best customer for its biggest export.

An Associated Press report this week told the story of Lucson Francois, a truck driver from Opal, Virginia, who was on his way home and had to stop five minutes away. He wasnt out of fuel. He wasnt broken down. He wasnt sick.

One way to look at detention times is to parse out the locations in which truckers are waiting the longest. Truckers waited at shipping docks for 2.5 hours per job on average in 2018, according to June FreightWaves SONAR data from its 135 markets. The average wait was as high as 4.7 hours in El Paso, Texas.

Truck drivers have joined the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) today to share their thoughts on the national truck laws. As part of the 'Coffee with a Cop' initiative, truck drivers operating on the Hume Highway stopped by Marulan BP Southbound to join the ATA and officers from NSW Police to chat about current issues and discuss ways to work together, over a free coffee provided by ATA Sponsor BP.

The national average van rate for June was 10 cents per mile higher than May. Prices were up in major freight markets such as Los Angeles, where they rose 14 percent; Memphis, which saw a 12 percent increase; and Atlanta, where rates were up 11 percent. That indicates higher truck demand and tighter capacity as freight flows inland.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The U.S. Transportation Department is aiming to ease drive-time rules for truckers nationwide. The move comes on the heels of the anniversary of a tragic truck accident on I-75 in Ooltewah. In 2015, six people were killed and many more injured after an impaired and fatigued truck driver crashed his truck into stopped traffic. A jury found the driver who caused the wreck, Benjamin Brewer, guilty in January, 2018.

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Orders for heavy trucks plunged by 69% in June compared to June last year, to 13,000 units, after having plunged by 71% in May, to just 10,400 units, FTR Transportation Intelligence reported today. It was the eighth month in a row of year-over-year declines. So far in 2019, the year-over-year declines in orders for Class-8 trucks ranged from -52% to -71%, which, as FTR said in the statement, makes it the weakest six-month start to a year since 2010:

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has agreed to make unspecified new purchases of farm products from the United States, President Donald Trump said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Japan.

The median annual wage for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers was $42,480 in May 2017. The median age of a truck drive in the U.S. is 49. Melton Truck Lines says the average driver for the company will make $70,000 annually, with the top drivers earning up to $90,000. Starting pay with the company is in the mid-$50,000 range.

OPAL, Va. (AP) Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. Hed reached the maximum number of hours in a day hes allowed to be on duty. Francois couldnt leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the sleeper berth in the back of the cab. Ten hours would have to pass before he could start driving again.

If our water flows freely when we open the tap, most of us dont think much about the reservoir where it originated or the plant where it was treated. We are even less likely to think about the network of pipes the water passed through to reach our sink. Similarly, when we buy a product in a shop or pick up an online purchase delivered to our doorstep, few of us consider the complex links in the supply chain that put that product in our hands. But a truly efficient supply chain that is

A new report from Oxford Economics predicts the U.S. could lose over 1.5 million jobs to robotics and automation by 2030. Globally, China stands to be hit the hardest, losing almost 12.5 million jobs over that same period. According to the report, manufacturing, logistics, maritime shipping and port operations will be hit hardest over the next decade as increasingly specialized robots and driverless vehicles become more efficient than their human counterparts. Higher income demographics will

WILLMAR A Willmar man died early Tuesday morning after falling from a grain elevator. The incident was reported at 4:22 a.m. at the Farm Service Elevator, 3939 First Avenue South in Willmar. According to a news release from Willmar Police Captain Michael Anderson, a 56-year-old man fell from a balcony area over a grain truck and struck his head.

Last week, for likely the first time, a heavy-duty commercial truck drove for 9.4 miles on the Florida Turnpike with no one inside. The "driver" was 140 miles away, operating the rig remotely.The big picture: Automated freight delivery is expected to begin long before self-driving cars are here, and at least a half dozen truck companies are working on the technology, with tests in various stages of development. Starsky Robotics' Florida demonstration was be

The U.S. Department of Labors Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered a Kentucky trucking company to rehire a driver who they fired for refusing to drive in dangerous winter weather. Freight Rite Inc. was ordered to reinstate an unnamed fired driver and to pay him $31,569 in back wages and interest, $100,000 in punitive damages, $50,000 in compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney fees, according to a June 28 news release from the Department of Labor.

Chart of the Week: Average hourly wages Transportation and Warehousing, Maintenance cost per mile, DAT Van Freight Rate Index National (SONAR: EARN.TPWH, MAINT.VCF, DATVF.VNU ) The longest freight market bull-run in over a decade is over as spot rates have fallen back to where they were two years ago. The problem presented to many carriers is that many of their costs have not. In this weeks chart, comparing wage and maintenance costs to average daily national spot rate

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators David Perdue, R-Ga., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., are leading a bipartisan effort to level the playing field for the transportation of agricultural products. The Agricultural Trucking Relief Act will expand the definition of an agricultural commodity to include horticultural and aquacultural products, promote consistency across all federal and state agencies and ease regulatory burdens on the trucking industry. This bill is cosponsored by U.S.

Truckers using older electronic logging technology should switch to ELDs now, and not wait for a December deadline, the head of the US truck safety watchdog agency said.

DETROIT (AP) Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would electronically limit tractor-trailer speeds to 65 miles per hour, a move they say would save lives on the nations highways. Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Chris Coons, D-Del., introduced the measure Thursday, saying it would take the place of a proposed Department of Transportation regulation that has languished in the federal process for over a decade.

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Curt and Susan Russell have announced that they will sell WW Feed & Supply to the families of current employees Ryan Davis and Robby Froman. The Russell's have owned the business since 2000 and expect the sale to close in July. Davis and Froman have been key employees of the business and will be principals in the new ownership. Davis, a native of Las Animas, earned his associates and bachelors degrees from Northeastern Junior College and Oklahoma Panhandle State University, respectively.

A long wait came to an end Monday for three Pratt County farmers as they watched wheat kernels pour from the combine into a waiting grain truck. On the first day of 2019 wheat harvest, this moment was long-anticipated and the crop coming in looked good for Gary Slief, Danny Quint and Mark Peachey. Shorter than average stalks and heavy clouds of dust could not diminish smiles as the 63 test-weight wheat filled the truck. “This is right at 12 to 13 percent moisture,” said Slief, who rode shotgun o

(CNN)Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue cited weather patterns and said "it rained yesterday, it's a nice pretty day today" when asked about the cause of the global climate crisis in an interview with CNN. Perdue joins President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as the latest senior administration official to question the near universal consensus in the scientific community that the global climate crisis is man-made. Perdue told CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich in the interview released Tuesd

A group of stakeholders is pushing for the congressional repeal of the federal excise tax on the sale of heavy-duty trucks and trailers. At a forum June 19, the Modernize the Truck Fleet coalition urged federal lawmakers to pass the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2019.

One of the events we make certain we block out time for at CES is IDCs annual Analyst Briefing. Its the best tech overview/snapshot youll find at the we will change the world event. While Tom Mainelli, devices and AR/VR VP/program manager, gave us some inputs before the presentations regarding the state of products/companies (more in the future); the discussion shifted to autonomous vehicles, which were everywhere at the show. One of the ladies at our table

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The announcements come several months after the company began production at its modernized flour mill in Oklahoma and a few months before commissioning a completely new flour mill in Illinois. As previously announced, ADM also will close its Chicago flour mill when the new mill begins operations in Mendota, Ill., 90 miles west of Chicago.

Decatur, Ill.-based Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) has announced plans to close one of its two Minneapolis, Minn., flour mills as well as its flour mill in Salina, Kan. Modernization of Flour Mills The announcements come several months after the company began production at its modernized flour mill in Oklahoma and a few months before commissioning a completely new flour mill in Illinois. As previously announced, ADM also will close its Chicago flour mill when the new mill begins operations

Some states are more truck-friendly than others when it comes to pay. According to Seek Business Capitals Best and Worst States for Truck Drivers list, Nevada is the best. Although not a state, Washington, D.C., ranks as the worst. According to Seek Business Capital, demand for truck drivers is up, which means so are salaries. Pay for truckers in nearly every state has gone up, but some states have larger salaries than others. Although the report mentions the

The 64-year-old man was honored Thursday in Omaha, Neb. for driving 2 million miles without an accident. He retired at the end of January after driving 27 years for Werner Enterprises. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy the scenery, Georgeff said when asked about the secret to his success. If you just do it for the miles, youll get bored very quickly. The way he sees it, being part of the 2 million miles accident-free club is a rarity.

CONCORD, NH (WGME) -- The pickup truck driver involved in a crash that killed seven people in Randolph, New Hampshire, is facing seven counts of negligent homicide.