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Amazon Building Their Semi-Truck Fleet Signals Bigger Changes Ahead

Amazon's Recent Truck & Trailer Purchases Number In Thousands Amazon.com is implementing a game changing strategy, using a delivery truck fleet for shipping orders to customers. The idea of starting to put together a private...
Trump And Trucking

Trump And Trucking: What It Means For Trucking Industry

The famous 2016 Presidential Election will certainly go down as one of the toughest, hard-hitting elections in history, not to mention one of the most biased. I really doubt you'll find a trucker (real...
L.A. Port Drivers Win Millions

L.A. Port Drivers Win Millions; Misclassified As Independent Contractors

Pacific 9 Transportation Ordered To Pay $7 Million To Port Drivers Anyone that follows trucking news or Truckers Logic has likely heard about the L.A. Port drivers at one time or another. We've been following...

Dutch Mill Trucking Destroyed In Sparta

Dutch Mill Trucking, a trucking shop located in Sparta, Wisconsin, has been destroyed. The trucking business at Dutch Mill trucking is a total lost. The Sparta fire department said the fire started when a truck...
Trucking Technology

Trucking Technology And Networking Benefits Truck Drivers And Shippers

The soon-to-be-released electronic logging mandate is often depicted as a time bomb that will reduce truck capacity, driving smaller carriers and independents off the roads. There will be some reduction in available capacity once...

WalMart Shows Off New Concept Rig

Walmart continues to make waves with their new concept rig show on the left. A futuristically styled tractor powered by a microturbine-electric hybrid drive system and a trailer made of lightweight carbon fiber comprise...

ATA President Makes Statement Over Highway Safety

ATA President and CEO Bill Graves made an official statement earlier this week concerning highway safety. “The issue of highway safety, and in particular the safety of the trucking industry, has been at the...

Truckload Turnover Over 90 Percent For 9th Straight Quarter

Turnover at large truckload carriers was up slightly to 92 percent in the first quarter, holding above 90 percent for the 9th straight quarter, American Trucking Associations reported today. Over-the-road truckload turnover rates were largely unchanged from the fourth quarter,...
truck driver shortage

Truck Driver Shortage Could Hit Your Wallet Soon

Truck Driver Shortage Continues To Grow If your in the trucking industry or follow the ongoing news, then your likely well aware of the truck driver shortage. At this time, the trucking industry is short...

Senator Tom Carper Proposes Raising Fuel Taxes

A democratic senator from Delaware is proposing to raise fuel taxes over the next four years. That senator is Tom Carper. Senator Carper is a senior transportation authorizer. The purpose of the fuel tax...