There has been much chatter about electric vehicles. Are sales going up or down? Should we put tariffs on imports? How much money do they
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Month: September 2024
Truckers gifted free burgers at weigh station during Canada trucker appreciation week
Truck drivers were hand-delivered burgers at a weigh station in Saskatchewan on Wednesday as part of Canada’s National Truck Driver Appreciation Week equivalent. Canada observes
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Benchmark diesel price drops a little; oil futures markets drop a lot
Pending increases out of OPEC+ driving prices down to levels not seen for months, or years Oil markets are in the middle of a major
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Yellow’s Chapter 11 plan includes rights offering, REIT
Large shareholders may backstop $150M offering A final Chapter 11 plan to liquidate Yellow’s remaining assets could include a reorganization wherein the defunct company’s major
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Pilot’s $25K truck driver appreciation contest; fall freight market breakdown | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?
On episode 754 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is back from Labor Day with FreightWaves’ Kyle Taylor to break down the post-holiday freight market. Was
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Canadian truck driver in U.S. court after $8.7M in suspected cocaine seized at Ambassador Bridge
A Canadian truck driver is in U.S district court in Detroit on Wednesday after allegedly trying to bring 290 kilograms of suspected cocaine across the border at
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For long-haul truckers, quality rest areas are a matter of life and death
AmeniRest areas are paramount to the health and wellness of long-haul truckers, who move billions of dollars worth of goods throughout the country, but quality
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Are you Ready For National Trucking Week?!
Canada’s professional truck drivers are the unsung heroes of the national economy. By delivering the critical goods and products Canadians rely on, these truck operators
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Protecting Canadian truckers from a tough U.S. claims environment
In July 2024, a U.S. court found a truck driver had crossed several lanes of traffic, causing a chain reaction that ended with the death
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Why brokers must ensure accurate commercial truck fleet reporting
Brokers are the front-line defenders for insurers covering commercial trucking. Especially since some fleet owners may attempt to insure only the trucks in use, while
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