Laws & Regulations

This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped two large trucking companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines for operating without diesel particulate filters.

Transportation officials in Sonoma County, California, are trying an innovative new tactic to keep truck traffic off of a one lane bridge.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is planning on gathering data and public comments on how commercial vehicle driver schedules impact driver fatigue and highway safety.

Virginia transportation officials are considering tolling drivers on I-81 to the tune of $2 billion in order to fund infrastructure improvements.

City officials in Fort Worth, Texas, have voted to increase the fees for illegal parking for both commercial and passenger vehicles.

Pilot Flying J's former president Mark Hazelwood has asked a judge to allow him to spend the holidays at home with his family before he reports to prison to serve his twelve and a half year sentence for scamming truck drivers out of millions of dollars.

Law enforcement agencies across Tennessee will be increasing enforcement on U.S. Highway 70 this week. 

Last week the Iowa Supreme Court found that the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) did not have the authority to issue approximately 13,000 citations over the course of two years.

A report released this week says that states that legalized marijuana have seen an increase in crashes.

This week, Volvo Group issued a warning that an emissions control component used in North American trucks "is degrading more quickly than expected."

A Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to cut down on road rage by banning drivers from carrying loaded weapons in their vehicles.

In response to the viral video of a truck overturning and falling down an embankment on Hopland Grade, Caltrans has issued a warning to truck drivers to heed the signs awn stay away.