Truck parking and traffic congestion intertwined

Truck parking and traffic congestion intertwined

ATRI says truck parking shortage exacerbated by rising highway congestion – and vice versa.

While a new report issued this week by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) highlighted how rising traffic congestion in the U.S. is becoming a more expensive problem for the trucking industry, it is a problem also being aggravated in part by the ongoing shortage of truck parking across the country as well.

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PrePass and Bestpass to offer integration solution

Two companies are combining their weigh station bypass and electronic toll payment services into a single transponder.

HELP Inc.'s truck weigh station bypass division PrePass and electronic toll management firm Bestpass are teaming up to provide what they call an “integrated solution” that will provide Bestpass customers with a single transponder for bypassing and toll payments.

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3 Reasons North Korea Is a Bigger Threat Than a Month Ago

3 Reasons North Korea Is a Bigger Threat Than a Month Ago

It's not just the unpredictability of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that make the volatile situation in and around the Korean Peninsula increasingly worrisome. In the past week or so, there are growing indications that the missile and nuclear capabilities of the gleefully belligerent North Korean regime are moving forward at a faster clip than Western analysts previously predicted.


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