Trucking News

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

Prime, Inc. is actively taking measures to improve the safety and well-being of its truckers, testing and treating drivers all from within their facility.

The Tennesssee-based trucking company Averitt Express is challenging INDOT's authority to collect on $60,000 for highway repair.

Pearly J. Provo, a 77-year-old truck driver from South Glen Falls died in a tragic accident after he was buried by his own load of dirt that he was dumping at the Clinton County landfill in Morrisonville, Iowa, last Friday.

On Tuesday, the Nebraska State Patrol performed a surprise CMV inspection blitz.