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Mississippi truck stop raided after complaints about selling Kratom and Tianeptine

The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) recently conducted a search warrant on a truck stop in Corinth, Mississippi, after receiving complaints about the sale...

FMCSA is doing nothing about trucking companies with fake addresses, trucking fraud expert says 

A trucking fraud expert says that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not doing enough to combat the fake addresses being used to...

46% of inspected commercial vehicles ordered out-of-service at CHP roadside checkpoint

Troopers at a California Highway Patrol (CHP) checkpoint handed out several citations and out-of-service orders after conducting just a handful of commercial vehicle inspections....

Florida troopers locate semi truck driver following double fatality crash

UPDATE 4 PM MAY 2------------------- Florida police have located and arrested a truck driver following a double fatality crash on I-95 in Palm Bay on...

Just a friendly reminder that some DOT officer interactions aren’t completely terrible

This video serves as a friendly reminder that every interaction with DOT doesn't have to be terrible.  In the video, a driver pulls up to...

Feds to determine cause of triple fatality crash started by Greyhound bus striking three semis parked on shoulder of rest area exit ramp

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced a meeting to determine the cause of a multiple fatality crash involving parked commercial vehicles that occurred in...

HOS waived for drivers hauling fuel in Kansas to alleviate “a bottleneck … not an overall shortage”

The Kansas Corporation Commission has granted a temporary hours of service waiver for drivers hauling fuel to alleviate “a bottleneck” causing shortages in the...

Firefighters and bystander reunite trucker with his French Bulldog after brake failure crash in Pennsylvania

Firefighters and a crash witness teamed up to bring a trucker's pup back to his family after a serious crash in Fulton County, Pennsylvania,...

Brand new trucker pulls man from car wedged beneath his trailer

A brand new truck driver rescued a man from a burning car after it crashed into his trailer this week.  Truck driver Charles Vickers was...

House voted to repeal approval of zero emission CMV requirements in California

The US House of Representatives voted to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of zero emission heavy duty truck requirements in California. The Advanced Clean...

Police seek tractor trailer driver who struck four overpasses on Highway 403

Canadian police are seeking a semi truck driver hauling heavy equipment who they say struck several overpasses without stopping on Thursday morning. At 10:39...

Driverless semi trucks now deployed on I-45 have OOIDA “deeply skeptical”

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association remains “deeply skeptical” about driverless trucks now operating along Interstate 45 in Texas this week.  Aurora Innovation launched fully driverless...

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