NTDC News Updates

We placed a video camera on the bumper of a truck competing at the 2014 National Truck Driving Championships to provide a ground-level view of the challenge drivers face as they try to dodge the ducks.

YRC Freight driver David Messmer’s name was on the list of competitors for the Arizona Truck Driving Championships, but the day of that event all eyes were on the doors as they began to close for the start of the competition.

"I know it’s made me a better driver out on the road,” says one driver of the experience gained by competing at the National Truck Driving Championships.

Trucking’s lifeblood is quality professionals — the drivers and law enforcement officers — American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said Thursday during the Breakfast of Champions at the start of the National Truck Driving Championships.

One hundred ninety drivers competed in four of the nine championship divisions Thursday: three-axle, four axle, flatbed and tanker.

Eleven women, a record number, are competing for top honors this week at the National Truck Driving Championships.

If anyone is measuring the enthusiasm in the viewing stands this week at the National Truck Driving Championships in Pittsburgh, some of the loudest cheering probably will be from the safety directors working at carriers large and small.

When would-be champions ask Derek Canard, the Arkansas Highway Police corporal who won the 2013 North American Inspectors Championship, how best to approach the competition, his message is simple.

When Andy Rynearson of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, climbs into the cab this week to compete at the National Truck Driving Championships in Pittsburgh, he might be thinking about his dad, David, a retired trucker.