trucks News Updates

Since Scott Moscrip founded Internet Truckstop in his basement 22 years ago, the company that became Truckstop.com has grown quietly. Its lack of heraldry is partially deliberate, CEO Paris Cole says, but toiling in little New Plymouth, Idaho, a town of 1,513, doesn’t draw much attention, either.

USA Truck Inc. lost money in the fourth quarter and for the full year in 2016, results that newly installed CEO James Reed criticized in a blunt assessment of the overall performance over the past 12 months.

Truckload companies posted quarterly results that outperformed the negative predictions from industry analysts, although profits were lower for some.

USA Truck CEO Randy Rogers has been let go after only one year in the job and replaced by recently hired Chief Financial Officer James Reed, according to an announcement from the company's chairman of the board that highlighted the need to change approaches at the struggling truckload carrier.

USA Truck in Van Buren, Arkansas, a national logistics company, has launched its Military Transition Apprenticeship Training Program to expand its outreach with U.S. military veterans.

Truckers Against Trafficking announced a partnership with UPS Freight that will train the carrier’s more than 8,000 drivers on how to recognize and respond to signs of human trafficking activity.

If commuters only understood. That is the prevailing mentality of truck drivers when it comes to courtesy, and the lack thereof, on Florida’s highways. Take our one-question poll on whether you think road rage is on the rise.

Charles “Shorty” Whittington has stepped down as CEO of Grammer Industries, and Bart Middleton has succeeded him, the Indiana-based hazardous materials carrier announced Nov. 30.

Toyota is exploring a “semi-trailer truck application” of hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Used Class 8 truck same-dealer sales increased less than 10% in October compared with a year earlier, according ACT Research Co.