Viewpoint: Trucking Companies Face Growing Wage & Hour Class Action Risks July 30, 2025 By Barry Y. Freeman Are you a trucking company? If so, you may be exposed to class action lawsuits for minimum wage, break time,...
Truckers Fear Job Loss as New English Language Rules Take Effect July 1, 2025 By Cathy Bussewitz At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods...
Man Charged With Intoxication Manslaughter in Texas Crash That Killed 5 People March 17, 2025 A man was charged Friday with intoxication manslaughter after five people were killed and several injured in a late-night wreck...
Trump’s Threat to EV Trucking Rules Undermines Big-Rig Bets February 26, 2025 By Ben Elgin and Cailley LaPara Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls...
OSHA Orders Building Materials Supplier to Reinstate Whistleblower Truck Driver September 19, 2024 A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Virginia subsidiary of one of the world’s largest building materials manufacturers fired a...
Autonomous Truck Market Surging, Study Finds February 21, 2024 The demand for autonomous trucks is estimated to increase from $3.3 billion in 2023 to reach $6.9 billion by 2028,...
Investigation Continues Into Deadly Illinois Crash of Truck Crash Carrying Toxic Chemical October 3, 2023 By John O'Connor and Colleen Slevin Authorities resumed their investigation of a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people, injured five others and prompted an...
Illinois Appellate Court Rules Freight Broker Not Liable for $18M Jury Award in Teen’s Brain Injury Case September 28, 2023 By Jim Sams A freight broker is not liable for an $18 million jury award to the mother of a teenage boy who...
EPA Finalizes Tough Emissions Rules to Cut Pollution From Heavy-Duty Trucks December 21, 2022 By David Shepardson The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday finalized new emissions standards to drastically cut smog- and soot-forming emissions from heavy-duty...
Michigan Man Arrested for Setting 25 Trucks on Fire in 8 States October 14, 2022 A Michigan man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he set 25 fires on semitrailers in eight...