Truck News

ExpoCam 2015: Gearing up for biggest show yet

MONTREAL, QC - Organizers of ExpoCam, Canada's biggest trucking-industry event, says all signs point to a record turnout April 16, 17 and 18, at Montreal's Place Bonaventure. They say the 2015 event is shaping up to be the most successful yet. "We were thrilled with the last show's attendance," says Joan Wilson, manager of ExpoCam. "We had 11 percent more attendees in 2013 than in 2011 and the 2015 show will be even bigger." More than 15,000 trucking industry members and 300 exhibitors attended ExpoCam 2013. Wilson says booth sales are outpacing 2013 and she's happy to report that Shell Rotella, Manac Trailers, and International Trucks have signed on as Platinum Sponsors. ExpoCam is presented by Newcom Business Media, publishers of Today's Trucking magazine.

U.S. fatalities in truck crashes up slightly in 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fatal crashes involving large trucks were up slightly from 2012 to 2013, according to numbers crunched by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Although fewer truck occupants were killed in crashes (691 in 2013, compared to 697 in 2012), and fewer occupants of other vehicles too, there was a spike in the deaths of non-occupants, leading to an overall 0.5% increase in the number of people killed in crashes involving large trucks. According to the NHTSA report, which you can read here http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812101.pdf , the number of non-occupants killed during a large-truck crash increased by 13 percent (49 people) from 2012 to 2013.