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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has created a video designed to show all drivers why speed limiters on big trucks are a bad idea. From OOIDA: "The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the nation’s only organization representing professional...

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has announced that the focus for this year's Roadcheck inspection campaign will be cargo securement. The annual 72 hour commercial vehicle inspection campaign will take place from June 6-8. The CVSA says that...

Yesterday a chain-reaction crash in Wisconsin involving more than 60 vehicles shut down portions of I-41 during winter weather conditions. I-41 southbound south of 60 is closed near Slinger for more than 40 vehicles/trucks involved in an...

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has issued an updated out of service criteria handbook to outline changes that will go into effect on April 1, 2017. Most of the updates are relatively minor. The most significant update...

Today the Department of Transportation announced that they found that the more restrictive Hours of Service regulations implemented in 2013 had no significant safety benefits. 2013 HOS Rules Put More Restrictions On Use Of 34 Hour Restart The...

It takes three people -- a truck driver, a steer car driver under the load, and a pilot car driver -- to move enormous airplane parts from Boeing's fabrication facility in Frederickson, Washington to the factory...

The Arizona Supreme Court has taken action that will allow an 80,000 member class action lawsuit against Swift Transportation to proceed. Suit Alleges That Swift Failed To Pay Drivers For All Miles They Drove The lawsuit filed in...

A major crash caused the cab of a truck to separate from the rest of the rig and fall off of an overpass in Maryland this morning. A post shared by The City of Frederick (@cityoffrederick) on...

The American Transport Research Institute has published an updated listing of both state and local idling regulations. The listing is available in two formats: the original PDF and a modified foldable "cab card" that you can print...

A lawsuit alleging that CRST has a "history of malicious misconduct in hiring, investigating and retaining its employees" is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damages following a head-on crash that injured two people...

Expect traffic headaches in downtown Houston this weekend as transportation officials are shutting down a section of I-10 for bridge repair. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, the closures will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will last...

Yesterday an Orange County Fire Captain jumped from an overpass onto the interstate below where he was hit by a semi truck. The incident began around 11 a.m. in Mission Viejo, California when the California Highway Patrol received...