Entries by Editorial Staff

Op-ed: Faltering infrastructure hurts trucking and all of America

Political leaders and citizens agree: our nation’s transport infrastructure is crumbling. Our roads receive a “D” grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and one in nine of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient. The trucking industry knows this as well as any, as our 3.5 million drivers travel 279 billion miles across […]

Op-ed: Let’s share the road this Memorial Day

Millions of Americans will hit the roads this Memorial Day weekend for beach trips and barbecues with friends and family. I’ll be right there beside them — not for a vacation, but as one of 3.5 million professional truck drivers working to safely deliver the goods that keep our community running. Driving alongside your family on […]

When Failing Infrastructure Slows Down Trucking, It Slows Down America

As an official affiliate of Infrastructure Week (for the third consecutive year), TMAF contributed the following blog post, which can also be found in full at the Infrastructure Week website: Trucking plays a vital role in every community across America. Our 3.5 million drivers travel 279.1 billion miles annually to deliver the goods that our towns […]

Trucks.com: Trucking Industry Non-Profit Fights Food Waste Through Collections for Needy

Working in the family moving business, Adam Lowy watched relocating homeowners trash tons of food upon arrival of the truck scheduled to haul all belongings. Appalled by the waste, Lowy established Move For Hunger, a non-profit that has organized moving van drivers to collect food that homeowners would throw out rather than pack. “This is such […]

WBRE: Students Get Glimpse of Truck Drivers View

BARTONSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) – We’ve all shared the road with tractor trailers, but truck drivers have a very different view from behind the wheel than we do. Adam Warner stands in front of the classroom like a teacher, but he’s actually a tractor trailer driver with Walmart. Adam’s teaching high school students how to […]

FleetOwner: Raising the profile of trucking nationally

Photos circulated widely last week of President Trump at the American Trucking Assns.’ (ATA) visit to the White House. What many may not have seen — or didn’t realize they were seeing — was a major ATA effort to raise the profile of trucking with the American people and motoring public. Now three years in […]

RoadSquad Radio

Listen to what RoadSquad Radio had to say on TMAF’s three-year anniversary, following MATS 2017:  

Live from Louisville: TMAF Turns 3

Celebrating our industry movement’s anniversary at the 2017 Mid-America Trucking Show Greetings from Louisville: home of the Kentucky Derby, pork chops and, of course, the annual Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS). MATS is an important event for every member of the trucking industry – an opportunity to engage with our peers and see all that the […]