A Los Angeles box truck driver was recently featured by the L.A. Times for the unique murals he creates using nothing but the dirt on his truck. Forty-eight year old Arnulfo Gonzalez has worked as a truck driver since 2000, but he’s recently garnered attention for the art he’s creating. Gonzalez has an art degree but started driving trucks to pay the
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Canadian authorities have announced that their country’s commercial vehicle drivers will be required to use Electronic Logging Device (ELD) technology within the next two years. On Thursday, June 13, Minister of Transport Marc Garneau announced that Canada will be mandating the use of electronic logging devices by federally regulated commercial truck and bus operators. The new ELD requirement will replace paper log
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Berks County, Pennsylvania – As many as 500 professional truck drivers may have to retake the skills portion of the CDL test after a criminal investigation has been launched into a Berks County CDL training program. A spokesperson with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has confirmed that letters have been sent to drivers who obtained their CDLs from the Berks
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During a major meeting between trucking industry stakeholders and Congress today, a group comprised of multiple mega-carriers told lawmakers that they have evidence that thousands of truck drivers are “manipulating” drug testing protocols and should be removed from the nation’s highways. On Wednesday, June 12, numerous trucking industry groups met with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and
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The Illinois State Police have announced that they’ll be conducting enhanced enforcement details designed to catch truckers who avoid weigh stations. The enforcement campaign is called “Operation ByPass” and it is designed to target truck drivers who knowingly avoid the fixed weigh stations located in District 5 when the scales are open and operational. Troopers said via press release that
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California police say that a semi truck driver’s homemade license plate led them to uncover a number of other major violations. In a news release issued on Monday, June 10, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office briefly described one officer’s encounter with a trucker whose big rig was sporting a suspicious license plate: “Recently, a motorcycle officer conducted a traffic enforcement stop on
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A northern Indiana county with a large Amish population is moving ahead with plans to add lanes along local roads just for horse-drawn buggies. Elkhart County’s commissioners voted earlier this month in favor of building the buggy lanes. Commissioner Mike Yoker tells WSBT-TV that the lanes are needed because of recent accidents, some of them deadly, involving buggies. Yoder says
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