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Drivers: Find any Motel 6 with this app

Motel 6 and Trucker Path, are partnering to help professional drivers find any of the nearly 1,400 Motel 6 locations through the app while on the job. Since the onset of the global health crisis, Motel 6 has launched enhanced protection protocols for guests...

Ex-FMCSA chief urges Canadian carriers to look closely at ELDs

“It is really incumbent upon the carriers to look closely at the system and not just accept any system because it was certified by a third party,” said Annette M. Sandberg, who led the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from late 2002 to early 2006....

FMCSA relaunches Crash Preventability Determination Program

WASHINGTON, D. C. – The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has relaunched an expanded Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP). Commercial drivers with an eligible crash that occurred on or after Aug. 1, 2019, can now submit a Request...

ECONOMIC WATCH: April Class 8 orders plummet 46% from March

COLUMBUS, Ind. – Class 8 net orders plummeted to 4,100 units in April, according to preliminary data from ACT Research, down 46% from March and 72% year-over-year. “April represents the first full month of Covid-19 impacts on the trucking industry, and given broadly...