Laws & Regulations

A new study published this month examined the effects of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate on commercial vehicle crash rates a year after the regulation went into effect.

A newly introduced bill will allow towing companies in Mississippi with unpaid tow bills to sell the personal property inside the vehicle.

This week, lawmakers in Virginia opted to kill plan to place tolls on cars and semi trucks traveling on I-81.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared war on truck drivers who are in violation of a weather related travel ban issued earlier this week. "This is a disgrace," Cuomo said of the truckers who...

Authorities in New York have issued a truck travel ban due to dangerous winter weather.

Lawmakers in several states have recently introduced or passed legislation to get rid of speed differentials or to increase speed limits for all drivers. 

This week, a former Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) official was sentenced after he admitted to accepting bribes from contractors for several years.

After a motorist was severely injured by a chunk of ice that fell off of a semi truck in Pennsylvania this week, both law enforcement and members of the trucking community are taking a closer look at the problem of ice removal for commercial vehicle drivers.

A newly introduced bill seeks to simply the confusing patchwork of state conceal and carry reciprocity laws, which would make it easier for professional truck drivers to legally defend themselves as they drive cross country. 

As Virginia lawmakers push forward with legislation to toll drivers on I-81, they are also concocting a plan to monitor and punish those drivers who try to avoid the toll roads.

Three Georgia lawmakers have submitted a bill that would all but forbid truckers from using any highways within the state.

This week, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released an updated list of state and local idling regulations to help trucker avoid costly fines.

This week, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) filed suit against several groups in Indiana over a recent toll increase that impacted only truckers. 

Lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to place tolls on one of busiest interstates in Virginia in order to fund infrastructure upgrades

Indiana transportation officials say that they will save millions of dollars by shutting down a busy rest stop in the near future.

Los Angeles prosecutors have sued the operators of one of the nation's most popular weather apps for allegedly tracking users and selling their data to third parties. According to a statement issued by Los Angeles City...