Trucking News

Yesterday, the North Texas Tollway Authority announced that beginning January 2014, the Tollway Authority will ban the vehicles of habitual violators from its roadways.

Oregon warns travelers that the flow of traffic will be slowed and to expect delays of up to twenty minutes, because the load will take up two lanes. Traffic will be stopped on the highways along five to seven-mile segments.

Selden Trucking of Shelby, Nebraska (established in 1983) hauls all of the equipment for the Husker football program to every away and bowl game...

“There was no one single cause for this tragedy,” said Captain Charles LeBlanc, commander of the Patrol’s Criminal Investigation Division. “There was a combination of circumstances that led to a horrific end.”

"The TRUE Safety Act will put the brakes on these rules until they can be thoroughly vetted," Graves said. "We're confident that once they are independently and objectively reviewed, FMCSA will have no choice but to undo what it has done."

Thieves are busier during the holidays, FreightWatch International says.

"Our highways are essential to commerce and the American traveler," said FHWA Administrator Victor Mendez. "By identifying critical freight highways, we will focus more attention on the routes upon which America’s businesses rely."

“No truck driver should be forced to drive while tired, sick or in violation of truck weight or Hours of Service requirements. OSHA will continue to defend America’s truck drivers against unscrupulous employers who unlawfully retaliate against drivers who assert their right to drive safely."

Tell us how the changes to HOS have affected you.

A final decision was issued regarding driver Tim Bishop’s case against UPS last Friday (November 15th 2013) by Judge Daniel Solomon of the U.S....

Not once, but twice!

The study, "paints an incomplete and misleading picture of the trucking industry."