Canada’s electronic logging device (ELD) mandate will go into effect on June 12th as planned, however, as Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said in a statement; “the impact of Covid-19 on commercial vehicle operations has been unprecedented and must be acknowledged. As such, with the support of provinces and territories, and in consultation with industry, we […]

Every four years the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) releases their Infrastructure Report Card to grade the status of the nations’ infrastructure. Everything from aviation to wastewater is assigned a grade, the cumulative grade has improved from 2017 from an awful D+ to a terrible C-. Some modest and incremental improvements in railroads, drinking […]

It has been found that women drivers are 20 percent less likely than male counterparts to be involved in a crash. Women make up about 47 percent of the United States’ labor force but unfortunately in the trucking industry, women are sorely underrepresented. In trucking they make up: 24 percent of all transportation and warehousing […]

Congestion, the bane of freight haulers everywhere, especially as hours of service are more tightly registered. To give truckers, the public at large, and transportation planners a sense of where congestion is at its worst, Th American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) releases an annual report of the top 100 highway bottlenecks. 2020 was certainly a […]

The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a group which has no representation from the motoring public. A group, whose notorious mismanagement and wastefulness has pushed the transit agency to the verge of financial ruin, approved a toll hike on all its crossings. The toll hike equates to an average increase of 7 percent […]