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C.R. England Honoring Veterans For Fourth Of July With Painted American-Themed Trucks

C.R. England, a refrigerated carrier based in Salt Lake City, is honoring veterans with five new military-themed trucks and trailers to be driven exclusively by former members of the military. The company also announced...

Peterbilt And Paccar Win Awards For Manufacturing Leadership

Peterbilt Motors Co. and its parent company, Paccar Inc., have received four Manufacturing Leadership Awards from Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council, taking top honors in the categories of workplace leadership and engineering and...
Prison Bus Totalled After Hitting Semi In Arizona

Prison Bus Crashes Into Semi Truck In Arizona; Inmates Help Injured

The scene on one Arizona highway looked like that of a Hollywood stunt as a prison bus crashes into a semi truck hauling chemicals. It looked like a huge disaster, but fortunately, no one...
April 2015 Trucking Jobs Added

1,900 Trucking Jobs Added In April 2015

The for-hire trucking industry added 1,900 jobs in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Department of Labor’s monthly employment report, released May 8, making up some ground lost in March. The DOL,...
Truck Driver Shortage

Truck Driver Shortage; 30,000 And Counting

We read a great article from Business Insider today and had to include in it in our headline news. Truckers Logic has followed the truck driver shortage very closely over the last few months....
Self Driving Rig

Self-Driving Rigs Could Be The Future Of Trucking

Traveling about 55 miles per hour on a Nevada highway, the big rig's driver looked like The Thinker, with his elbow on the arm rest and his hand on his chin. No hands on...
August 2015 Trucking Jobs

Transportation Adds 7,000+ Jobs; Trucking Industry Up 700 In August

While the U.S. economy struggled in August, it still saw another consecutive growth in jobs. The U.S. economy generated a lower-than-expected 173,000 new jobs in August, the government reported Friday. The transportation sector gained more...
Cisco Trucking Raid

Cisco Trucking Raided By DEA

A Cisco trucking company, based in Huntington, West Virginia, has been raided and shut down by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Huntington Police Department. Cisco Trucking is located on 7th avenue in...

Top Transportation Sector Stocks April 2014

Best Transportation Sector Stocks With the transportation sector seeing continued growth and a future forecast that shows growth past 2016, transportation stocks are becoming a great investment for portfolios. Transportation stocks have been performing great...

Trucking Industry Fighting To Quiet Rest Rules

The trucking industry has been hit hard by the media this week after a Walmart truck driver hit Tracy Morgan's limo bus. The truck driver had not slept in over 24 hours and now...