Best Read Trucking Headlines
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#1 Trump’s Threat to EV Trucking Rules Undermines Big-Rig Bets
Feb 26 2025 // Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls containers from the bustling ports around Los Angeles, began adding some of the country’s first...
#2 Explorers Discover Wreckage of Old Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
#3 Thailand Races to Stop Toxic Waste Cargo on MSC, Maersk Ships
Aug 13 2024 // Thai authorities are racing to stop about 100 shipping containers allegedly filled with hazardous industrial waste from Albania reaching the nation’s ports. Basel Action Network, a US-based nonprofit that tracks...
#4 NTSB Faults ‘Failure’ in Training Before Deadly Newark Cargo Ship Fire
Apr 17 2025 // The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of...
#5 Trump Tariffs Could Intensify US Trucking Industry Slump, Experts Say
Dec 16 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on top trade partners China, Mexico and Canada would deal a blow to the $1.7 trillion U.S. transportation industry and worsen a nearly three-year trucking recession,...
#6 New Hampshire Weighs Suspension of Trucker Found Not Guilty in Deadly Crash
Jun 25 2024 // Days before the five-year anniversary of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists, relatives and friends urged New Hampshire officials not to allow the trucker involved back on the state’s roadways. A jury in 2022...
#7 FedEx Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Bird Strike and Engine Fire
Mar 2 2025 // A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport on Saturday after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky. The plane landed at Newark Liberty International...
#8 West Texas Truckers Protest Low Wages, Working Conditions
Jul 3 2024 // MONAHANS — Low wages and working conditions that truck drivers describe as degrading have sparked an organized labor movement in the Permian Basin, a historic first for the nation’s busiest oil field. About a dozen...
#9 Cargo Carriers Fear Port Strike Will Paralyze Half of US Trade
Sep 30 2024 // The world’s top container carrier is urging customers to move US cargo through East and Gulf Coast ports before the planned start on Tuesday of a dockworker strike that threatens to paralyze as much as half the...
#10 Trucking Firm Owner Sentenced Over Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
Nov 25 2024 // The owner of a trucking company was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for lying to investigators after one of his trucks was accused of causing a crash that killed seven...
#11 9 Changes to FMCSA’s CSA Scoring: What you need to know
Apr 9 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is revamping its Compliance, Safety and Accountability system to consolidate violations, simplify...
#12 Dali Cargo Ship Leaves Baltimore for Virginia, Nearly 3 Months After Bridge Collapse
Jun 26 2024 // The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to...
#13 Why the Canadian Freight Rail Halt Will Roil North American Supply Chains
Aug 22 2024 // Canada’s two main freight rail companies locked out around 10,000 of their Canadian unionized workers early on Thursday, starting an unprecedented simultaneous work stoppage that will grind almost all railway freight...
#14 Trucking Firm of Fatigued Driver Who Caused Fatal Crash Kept Fake Hours Data: NTSB
Aug 30 2024 // A crash that killed three passengers on a party bus on a Virginia highway was caused by a fatigued truck driver working for a company that allowed its drivers to log excessive hours, a federal report concluded...
#15 Burning Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles Abandoned Off Alaska
Jun 4 2025 // The crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned it off the coast of Alaska after a fire broke out onboard, its operator Zodiac Maritime said on Wednesday. The 22 crew...
#16 Inside the $455M Cargo Theft Surge – 4 Ways to Protect Your Fleet
Jun 6 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Cargo theft reached an all-time high in 2024 – up 26% from 2023, with total reported losses of $455 million. The average estimated value per theft rose 7.7%...
#17 Lyft is a Motor Carrier and State Farm Can Be Sued Directly, Georgia Court Says
Aug 28 2024 // Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing...
#18 Cargo Theft Surges to Record Levels in 2024
Jan 23 2025 // 2024 saw record-breaking cargo theft activity across the United States and Canada, with 3,625 reported incidents representing a 27% increase from 2023, according to global data analytics and technology provider CargoNet, a...
#19 The Rise of Strategic Cargo Theft and Steps to Prevent It
Jun 26 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Cargo theft reached an all-time high last year — up 57% across North America alone.[1] Most commonly, these thefts are the result of an ongoing misdirection...
#20 Trucking Firm Owner Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
Aug 16 2024 // An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield,...
