FR8 Revolution announced it has launched a fully integrated booking and dispatch platform for open deck loads. With a focus on heavy haul and open deck, FR8Star offers a marketplace where carriers can bid on loads, book directly with shippers, and manage their fleet all in one platform.
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...Read the rest of this storyInland Kenworth will auction off a special KW T680 "Everyday Heroes" truck in June and donate the proceeds to Truckers Against Trafficking. Here the truck is on display at FlowBelow's booth at the Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting earlier this year. Photo: Deborah Lockridge
">Inland Kenworth will auction off a special KW T680 "Everyday Heroes" truck in June and donate the proceeds to Truckers Against Trafficking. Here the truck is on display at FlowBelow's booth at the Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting earlier this year. Photo: Deborah Lockridge
">CNN tells the story of human trafficking through the eyes of a trucker who was responsible for the liberation of a 20-year-old abused and tortured sex slave in the piece, "Eyes of the highways: Raising a 'trucker army' for trafficking fight."
Kevin Kimmel, CNN reports, didn't really know much about human trafficking, but he noticed a suspicious-looking RV with black curtains at a fuel stop. When he saw a man knock on the door, then a glimpse of a young female inside before the RV started rocking, he called the local authorities.
"He later saw on the news that the woman he spotted was a 20-year-old sex trafficking victim," CNN reports. "She had been lured away from her home in Iowa, held against her will and subjected to a gruesome ordeal of torture, sexual assault and forced prostitution." The couple involved eventually were sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Thanks in large part to the efforts of the nonprofit group Truckers Against Trafficking and the help of trucking industry sponsors to raise awareness of the issue, truckers like Kimmel "are increasingly seen as operating on the front line in the fight against human trafficking," as CNN noted.
Human trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, is "a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his (or) her will."
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Phillips Industries, a provider of advanced electrical and air brake system components and electronic communication solutions for commercial vehicles, has hired David Diaz as director of marketing.
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...Read the rest of this storyDiscussing issues facing fleet management and how present and future technologies can solve them were the main points behind a seminar conducted by BlackBerry and fleet services graphics provider Modagrafics on April 6. The event was held at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL, not far from Modagrafics' corporate headquarters.
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...Read the rest of this storyDiscussing issues facing fleet management and how present and future technologies can solve them were the main points behind a seminar conducted by BlackBerry and fleet services graphics provider Modagrafics on April 6. The event was held at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL, not far from Modagrafics' corporate headquarters.
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...Read the rest of this storyWeigh station bypass system provider Drivewyze is the most recent company to join Pegasus TransTech's Transflo Connect Partner Program, meaning that Pegasus will be integrating weigh station bypass features into its new Transflo Mobile offering.
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