Trucking News

Caltrans officials have given truck drivers the green light to drive in the eastbound express lanes of North Sacramento's I-80 while construction occupies the two outer lanes.

"I'm forced to turn off engine while waiting to be loaded even its 100°F, no matter what. They don't have drivers room or decent restroom. Why do they treat us like human trash? - Even dogs have right to sit in place with AC."

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Secretary, Anthony Foxx announced on July 25th, that Chief Anne Ferro would be stepping down from her position next month.

John Kill has been accused of selling fake insurance to hundreds of small trucking and construction companies was arrested from his home and charged in Gwinnett County, Ga.

6 OOIDA members have filed a class-action lawsuit against the FMCSA under the Federal Privacy Act, claiming that the FMCSA is "unlawfully disseminating reports of driver safety records to potential employers."

Team drivers' squabble lands them both in jail.

This year's mayfly hatch in the Mississippi Valley broke records on Sunday evening as new hatchings of the bugs emerged from the water in a massive dark cloud and wreaked havoc in the area, causing slippery roads and a three car crash.

The FMCSA and OSHA today announced the agencies have signed an agreement to "to strengthen the coordination and cooperation between the agencies regarding the anti-retaliation provision of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA). The Memorandum allows for the exchange of safety, coercion and retaliation allegations, when received by one agency, that fall under the authority of the other."

Two Transco Lines Inc. (TLI) truck drivers have been awarded the TCA Highway Angel award for going above and beyond to help others.

Truck driver Jeremy Tilson from Sidney, Ma., has been fined $311 for failing to obey a railroad warning after a train in Livermore Falls collided with his logging truck, spilling heavy logs all over a busy road Wednesday afternoon. The Pan Am train was on its way to Portland.

A driver who was hauling $2 million worth of pharmaceutical drugs and narcotics found that his truck was missing, after it was parked and left running outside a Barstow County, Ga. truck stop early Tuesday morning.

Quick-thinking Recology driver Mike Jones was able to save the life of a man after he accidentally loaded him into his recycling truck in San Francisco's Sunset District