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How to Prepare for Long Haul Trips_Canal Cartage
Commercial Truck Safety

How to Prepare for Long Haul Trips: Essential Packing and Planning Tips

Long-haul trips are indispensable to the trucking industry, demanding meticulous preparation to ensure a smooth journey from start to finish. Effective packing and planning can significantly impact the success of these extended journeys. To help you easily navigate these long hauls, we’ve compiled a guide with essential tips for packing

Truck Driver Safety and Crisis Management in Trucking_Canal Cartage Houston
Commercial Truck Safety

The Psychology of Truck Driver Safety and Crisis Management in Trucking

Elevating Driver Safety and Crisis Management in Trucking In the dynamic realm of logistics, trucking companies encounter many challenges, ranging from natural disasters to global crises. Balancing the efficient flow of goods with prioritizing driver safety necessitates a strategic fusion of tactics for crisis management in trucking and a deep

Trucking Safety Best Practices _ Canal Cartage Company
Commercial Truck Safety

Trucking Safety Best Practices: A Comprehensive Business Approach

The trucking industry, an instrumental sector in logistics and transportation, shoulders the responsibility of goods movement across vast geographies. However, this crucial role necessitates the implementation of stringent trucking safety measures. The industry grapples with myriad challenges concerning trucking safety on the roads. This article dissects various safety elements in

truck maintenance canal cartage
Commercial Truck Safety

Truck Maintenance Tips for Keeping Your Fleet in Shape

Truck maintenance is an essential aspect of owning and operating a truck or tractor. Regular preventative maintenance is crucial for the efficient performance of trucks and tractors on the road. Proper maintenance reduces the risk of breakdowns, which can cause delays in delivery time and inconvenience customers. This can have

Truck Driver Supply Kit
Commercial Truck Safety

Essential Items for a Truck Driver Supply Kit

A truck driver supply kit is a must-have essential for any long-haul trucker. Truckers spend hours on end, traveling across the country, hauling and delivering goods, making it crucial for them to have access to a well-stocked truck driver supply kit.  From tools to toiletries and emergency equipment, it’s vital

Trucking Regulations 2021
Commercial Truck Safety

What Trucking Regulations Could Change in 2021?

Taking a look ahead at what could be coming, allows the trucking industry to be prepared. And there may be some big (but mostly positive) changes to trucking regulations in 2021.

Canal Cartage Company

A Big Positive Change to the Sleeper Berth Rule for Truckers

From the White House to the Department of Transportation, the trucking industry has been recognized as an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic.  What has been encouraging to see is the recognition that trucking is an essential service that American consumers and commercial businesses rely on always. Not just in

Self driving truck with head up display on a road
Commercial Truck Safety

Driverless Trucks Are Not an Option Now for Drayage

Driverless technology has already entered the consumer vehicle marketplace, with driver-assisted technology. But if you have been following the news, the technology behind driverless vehicles is anything but perfect for passenger vehicles.

Commercial Truck Safety

Driverless Heavy Trucks Are Not a Good Option

With so many careers and job functions that are being rapidly replaced by automation, it is no wonder that the concept of driverless vehicles makes truckers and carriers a little nervous.   More than half of the States in American have approved laws that allow for the testing of driverless civilian

Safety Kit and training
Commercial Truck Safety

What Kind of Safety Kit and Training Should CDL Drivers Have?

Every day, truckers are faced with medical emergencies making it very important for them to carry a proper safety kit.. Truck drivers are often the first on the scene of traffic accidents and other situations that require first aid, such as choking, bleeding, burns, broken bones, unconsciousness, diabetic shock, strokes

Heavy Truck Rollover
Commercial Truck Safety

Reduce Your Risk Of A Heavy Truck Rollover With These Tips

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), rollovers account for only five percent of the big truck accidents, but they have a higher fatality rate than other crashes. Statistics through 2016 show that nearly 2000 big truck and tanker rollover accidents occur in the United States each year,

24 7 dispatch trucking job
Commercial Truck Safety

Requirements for Commercial Truck Drivers in Texas

The State of Texas, and the commercial cartage industry, take the safety of the public, drivers and the integrity of safe delivery of goods and commodities very seriously.  Our record and reputation for quality cartage services is routed in public and driver safety. Mandatory Training and Education Prior to Licensure

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