The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and the Truckload Carriers Association are seeking carriers to bring The Wall That Heals to communities across America.
A mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Wall That Heals, bears the names of the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam and honors the millions of Americans who served during the Vietnam War.
The three quarter-scale replica of the wall and a mobile education center spread the wall’s healing legacy to hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. The VVMF needs drivers and/or trucking companies to volunteer to haul The Wall That Heals to a single event or to multiple locations.
The trailer is a 13 ½’ tall, modified trailer weighing approximately 54,000 pounds when loaded. It has a significantly long overhang above the hitch and requires longer trucks to haul it. To safely connect and haul it, you must have a total of 92” between the rearmost portion of your truck(s) and the center of your kingpin. With anything shorter, it will likely damage your truck and the trailer.
You can sign up online.
Truck Path and Truckstop.com join forces
Trucker Path, a mobile app for North American truckers, and freight technology platform Truckstop.com, today announced a partnership that will bring an expansive number of available loads into Trucker Path’s TruckLoads digital freight exchange.
“This new partnership that makes the Truckstop load feed available in our TruckLoads app will increase load availability to our users more than tenfold – helping our users find the right loads more easily and helping brokers get their loads covered more easily,” said Chris Oliver, CMO at Trucker Path.
Under this agreement, Trucker Path’s TruckLoads customers can also subscribe to and access Truckstop.com loads directly within the TruckLoads mobile app, expanding load visibility to more carriers and helping brokers get loads covered faster.
“Technology partnerships like this help keep freight moving across the country by giving carriers and brokers more ways to connect and work together,” said Scott Moscrip, founder and CEO of Truckstop.com.
Volvo announces electric truck progress
Volvo Trucks recently announced some major electric news:
Firstly, a new long-distance electric truck, the FH Aero Electric with extended range, is capable of driving up to 434 miles on one charge, whcih Volvo called a breakthrough for heavy electric trucks and driving the really long distances.
Secondly, the next-generation heavy-duty Volvo FH, FM and FMX Electric trucks, with major improvements in flexibility, productivity, driving comfort and with ranges up to 292 miles making it possible to switch to electric truck operation for even more transport assignments.
The new long-distance truck, the Volvo FH Aero Electric with extended range, can drive up to 434 niles on one charge thanks to a new driveline technology, the e-axle, which creates space for significantly more battery capacity onboard. The truck is adapted to the new MCS (Megawatt Charging System) standard and charging the eight batteries from 20% to 80% will take abiut 50 minutes. This means charging can be done within the legislated rest period for truck drivers in the European Union, thereby contributing to high productivity.
“This long-haul electric truck is the best in the industry. It offers an outstanding range in combination with high payload, fast charging and great riding comfort. With this truck, our customers can drive the really long distances and throughout an entire working day with the same productivity as diesel trucks,” says Roger Alm.
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