truck driver

A Colorado-based truck driver was sentenced last week in a Kansas courtroom to five years in prison for a crash that killed five people back in 2017. According to numerous press reports, the 59-year-old driver, Kenny Ford, was behind the wheel of a Freightliner truck when he failed to slow for...

Brazilian truck drivers began what was planned to be a 24-hour strike just after midnight on Monday at the Port of Santos, affecting access at one of Latin America's largest ports.  However, police using smoke bombs broke up the protest around 4 p.m. Monday, and union leader Alexsandro Viviani was...

As our lives are settling down after holiday parties, opening gifts, and long trips through the air and on the roads, sun worshipers are already thinking about warmer weather. Despite the fact that there are still 11 weeks to go in winter, they love this time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere...

SmartCap is wearable technology that can measure a driver's levels of fatigue and give an appropriate warning alert. A 12-month pilot of wearable technology that can monitor the levels of fatigue in truck drivers is being trialled by the Queensland Trucking Association and the Port of Brisbane...

Driver shortages are a perennial problem for the trucking trade and this problem is expected to get worse over the next 10 years with the industry requiring close to a million new drivers, over and above those that exist today. According to Sharan Savadattimath chief information officer and co-...

The National Transportation Institute's year-end roundup contained one surprising data point after another. The report's conclusion, however, didn't come as much of a shocker. "The biggest takeaway is we've got a systemic labor problem," said NTI president and CEO...

According to CNNMoney, more than 11 million Americans are unemployed. At the same time, there are enough jobs available (4 million) to reduce that number by more than a third. The problem is one of matching up qualified applicants with the right positions – or of would-be applicants getting the...