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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...

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 Edge Network

Advertising And Marketing For Trucking Professionals The Trucking Edge Network offers a variety of advertising and marketing services for truck drivers and trucking companies. Imagine an already established network for your trucking business to advertise,...

UPS Fires 250 Employees For Staging Strike

 UPS Drivers Face Termination Queens, New York After walking off the job during a 90 minute protest back in February, 250 UPS drivers will now be terminated once their replacements are trained. According to reports,...
Hair Drug Test For Truck Drivers

Hair Drug Screen Test for Truck Drivers: Carriers Push FMCSA For Approval

Truckers Logic first reported on the hair drug screen test for truck drivers more than a year ago when the ATA was pushing the objective. The topic is hot again as we've learned that...

Trucking Industry Adds 2,800 Jobs In July

Trucking Industry Continues Record Job Growth July was a great month for the trucking, jobs in the for-hire trucking industry climbed further into record high territory in July, although most of the month-to-month improvement comes...
Electronic Logging Devices

Electronic Logging Device Mandate Is Close As Trucking Industry Braces For Big Change

Electronic Logging Device Mandate Heating Up As Publication Looms It's no secret that the electronic logging device mandate is on the minds of everyone in the trucking industry as we brace for big changes that...

Tracy Morgan More Responsive; Still In Critical Care

Tracy Morgan remained in critical condition on Monday but Morgan is showing signs of improvement after a car wreck a two days earlier that killed another passenger, the comedian's publicist said. "He has been more responsive today,...

Kraft Food Fleet Eliminating Private Fleet

Kraft Layoffs Continue Kraft Foods is discontinuing its nationwide private truck fleet, resulting in the elimination of around 285 total jobs by the end of 2014. "We plan to use contract and other commercial carriers to handle the...

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...