Most Popular Trucking Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Trucking Topic Page over the last year.
#1 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...
#2 Driverless Trucking Firm Aurora Puts Human Back in Driver’s Seat
May 20 2025 // Driverless vehicle developer Aurora Innovation Inc. is putting a human back in front of the wheel of big rigs operating in Texas, reversing course less than three weeks after the company began commercial autonomous service...
#3 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...
#4 Midwest Trucking Company to Pay $45K Over Discrimination Disability Lawsuit
Apr 28 2025 // Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
#5 Truckers Fear Job Loss as New English Language Rules Take Effect
Jul 1 2025 // At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods to perform safety checks, narrating as they examine steering hoses for cracks and...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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,...
#11 New Report Shows Rise in Cargo Theft, With Three States Leading the Way
Apr 29 2025 // Cargo theft across the U.S. and Canada continued to rise in 2024, with three states making up the bulk of losses, a new report shows. Multimodal hubs in California, Texas, as well as around Chicago, continue to be top...
#12 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...
#13 Freight Train Collision in West Texas Kills 2 Union Pacific Employees
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5...
#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 DHL Cargo Plane Crashes Near Vilnius Airport, Killing One
Nov 26 2024 // A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed close to Vilnius Airport, killing a crew member and injuring three others, according to police. The Boeing 737-400, which took off from the eastern German city of...
#16 Trucker Crashes Into Stopped Traffic in Michigan, Killing 4
Nov 5 2024 // WEBBERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A section of Interstate 96 in southeast Michigan remained closed Sunday after a semitruck crashed into more than a dozen vehicles overnight, killing 4 people and injuring 17 others, according to...
#17 Black Man Sues Iowa Trucking Company for Alleged Hair Discrimination
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...
#18 Trucker in Crash That Killed 7 Farmworkers in Oregon Sentenced to 48 Years
Mar 7 2025 // A truck driver who killed seven farmworkers when he crashed into a parked van on Interstate 5 in Oregon was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 50 years in prison. Marion County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Wren sentenced Lincoln...
#19 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...
#20 Norwegian Man Awakes to Discover Grounded Cargo Ship Narrowly Missed His Home
May 27 2025 // A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast. Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through...
