Category: Trucking News

House Dem’s NAFTA redo would drop cross-border trucking requirement

DeFazio 'blueprint' calls for trade renegotiation to begin by June 1 If President Trump wants to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, a group of House Democrats is ready and willing to provide the blueprint. Led by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D.-OR), the ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the resolution introduced Thursday includes a provision that would remove the cross-border trucking requirement—a long-problematic clause in the current trade deal.

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Chevin launches FleetWave on Geotab Marketplace

Chevin Fleet Solutions announced that its enterprise-level software, FleetWave, is available via the Geotab Marketplace, a source for open IoT fleet management solutions.

This integration is designed to help mutual customers achieve increased productivity, decreased costs, and improved compliance over all aspects of their fleet, asset and workforce management – by helping streamline analysis and reporting on data from driver behavior to vehicle routing and use.

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Pamphlets not enough to improve industry image: panel

MISSISSAUGA, ON – Industry employers need to overcome several barriers if they hope to attract a new generation of employees, according to several educators, career and guidance counselors. But the panelists, participating in the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario's annual conference on Thursday, say there are several ways to reshape the image of trucking-related careers. ...Read the rest of this story

Goodyear announces Highway Hero finalists

Three drivers who stepped in to save the lives of fellow motorists will be honored at the Mid-America Trucking Show in March.

A truck driver stops to rescue an unconscious motorist from a flipped-over minivan; another races to save a mother and her three children trapped in an upside-down car sinking in a creek bed; a third hops aboard an out-of-control dump truck to aid its incapacitated operator.

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