171 Employees Honored for Millions of Miles of Safe Driving The U.S. Postal Service held a National Logistics Symposium for employees from Oct. 24-26 in Kansas City. The symposium provided information on the latest driver technology, safe driving strategies, driver training and an award recognition for USPS tractor trailer operators. “We want our drivers to return home to […]
This level of delay equates to more than 460,000 commercial truck drivers sitting idle for one work year Traffic congestion on U.S. highways added $94.6 billion in costs to the trucking industry in 2021 according to the latest Cost of Congestion study published by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). This is the highest level yet recorded […]
Index 4.1% Below September 2022 American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 1.1% in September after rising 0.2% in August. In September, the index equaled 113.9 (2015=100) compared with 115.2 in August. “After hitting a bottom in April, tonnage increased in three of the previous four months, gaining a total […]
Martinsville Independent School District Welcomes Fleet of Five Blue Bird Electric School Buses Powered by Five Nuvve Level II Chargers and Managed by Nuvve’s FleetBox software Nuvve Holding Corp. accelerating the electrification of transportation through its proprietary vehicle-to-grid (V2G) platform, and Blue Bird Corporation, the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, have replaced the Martinsville Independent School […]
Businesses urge EU to be ambitious with carbon reduction targets for heavy trucks Global non-profit Climate Group, alongside some of the biggest transporters and shippers in Europe, IKEA, Maersk, Geopost and Unilever, have today called on MEPs to adopt ambitious carbon reduction targets for Europe’s heavy trucking sector ahead of a vote scheduled for Monday […]
August’s TCI implies the toughest overall market conditions for carriers since April 2020 FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index fell to -12.54 in August from the July reading of -5.34 due to sharply higher diesel prices and weaker freight volume. August’s TCI implies the toughest overall market conditions for carriers since April 2020, although surges in fuel […]
