Latest Trucking Headlines
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First Licensed Autonomous Freight Truck Hits the Road in U.S.
May 18 2015 // In a ceremony at Hoover Dam in May, Daimler Trucks North America unveiled the Freightliner Inspiration Truck, what it says is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate on an open public highway in the...
First Licensed Autonomous Freight Truck Hits the Road in U.S.
May 6 2015 // In a ceremony at Hoover Dam, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled the Freightliner Inspiration Truck, what it says is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate on an open public highway in the...
Truckers at Major California Port Strike Over Wages
Apr 28 2015 // Truck drivers who haul goods from the busiest port complex in the United States walked off the job Monday in a dispute over their wages and employee status, months after another West Coast labor conflict cost major delays...
Exit Ramp Rollovers Kill Hundreds of Truckers a Year
Mar 31 2015 // It was almost midnight when Walter Price eased his 18-wheeler into the right lane on Interstate 75 near Atlanta. As he began to bank onto the exit ramp he’d been taking for the past 10 years, Price had no idea he was...
South Dakota Trucking Company Ordered Off the Road
Mar 16 2015 // Federal transportation regulators have ordered a South Dakota trucking company and its owner to stop all commercial operations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has deemed commercial driver Lonnie Roth and...
TUMI Now a Lloyd’s Coverholder, Launches Auto Liability & Transportation Programs
Mar 12 2015 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, is now an approved Lloyd’s Coverholder and recently began underwriting business on behalf of certain underwriters at Lloyd’s....
Trucking Safety Chief Defends Driver Rest Regulations
Mar 4 2015 // The trucking industry’s overseer is giving little ground to critics who asked Congress to loosen U.S. regulations and revise a rating system designed to root out unsafe carriers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
Former Arrow Trucking CEO Pleads Guilty in Oklahoma to Fraud Charges
Feb 9 2015 // The former CEO of a now-defunct trucking company that left its employees stranded all over the country when it suddenly shut down in December 2009 has pleaded guilty in federal court in Oklahoma to charges of tax evasion...
Trucker Crashes in Alabama While Pulling Out Tooth
Feb 3 2015 // Alabama authorities say a tractor-trailer crashed on Interstate 20 near Tuscaloosa because the driver lost control while he was pulling one of his teeth. The Alabama Highway Patrol says the truck driver told troopers he...
Mexican Motor Carriers Can Apply to Cross Border for Long-Haul Trucking
Jan 26 2015 // The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that Mexican motor carriers will soon be able to apply for authority to conduct long-haul, cross-border trucking services in the United States. This marks a milestone in...
Mexican Motor Carriers Can Apply to Cross Border for Long-Haul Trucking
Jan 26 2015 // The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that Mexican motor carriers will soon be able to apply for authority to conduct long-haul, cross-border trucking services in the United States. The policy change marks a...
Fischer, Prout to Lead Fidelis Group Holdings’ New Ocean Cargo Unit
Jan 14 2015 // Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH) and its subsidiary, Continental Underwriters Ltd., a have formed an ocean cargo division and named Doug Fischer and Crystal Prout as managing directors of the unit. The new ocean cargo...
It’s Time to Act on Trucking Safety Ideas, Says NTSB
Jan 14 2015 // Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety...
Sen. Collins Finds Route to Help Trucking Industry
Dec 15 2014 // For the second time in three years, the trucking industry has found a friend in Senator Susan Collins. The Maine Republican got a rider attached to the spending bill approved over the weekend so truckers will no longer...
Congress Budget Deal Suspends Trucker Rest Rule
Dec 10 2014 // Congress is poised to roll back safety rules aimed at ensuring truck drivers get enough rest, ignoring the pleas of consumer activists and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The provision, added to budget...
Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Oklahoma Trucking Co. Faces Fraud Charges
Dec 8 2014 // Just shy of five years after Arrow Trucking Co. in Tulsa, Okla., suddenly shut its doors, the company’s former chief executive has been indicted on fraud charges related to the company’s demise. A 23-count...
Transportation Chief Opposes Trucker Fatigue Rule Delay in Budget
Dec 8 2014 // Congress is considering adding to a year-end budget deal a provision to roll back safety rules aimed at ensuring truck drivers get enough rest, a measure U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said should be...
Oversized Cargo Haulers Seek Exemption from 30-Minute Break Rule
Dec 3 2014 // Oversized and overweight cargo haulers that can only operate on roadways at certain times of day are seeking an exemption from a new federal trucking regulation requiring drivers to take a 30-minute rest every eight...
Small Cargo Plane Crashes into Chicago Home; Couple Spared
Nov 19 2014 // A small twin-engine cargo plane crashed into a home on Chicago’s southwest side on Nov. 18, killing the pilot but sparing a couple who were asleep just inches away. The Aero Commander 500 slammed into the front of...
Fireman: Trucker ‘Zombie’-Like After Fatal Bus Crash
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on...
