Trucker News

The life of a trucker has always been hard, especially for long-haul drivers. Today there is a shortage of about 200,000 truck drivers.

When you log a lot of miles cavorting about the country, you get to know certain trucking lines by where they are and how they drive.

For a time after the gas drilling boom hit the Northern Panhandle, it seemed as if most of the companies involved were trying hard to be good neighbors.

A Wyoming-based trucking company is facing possible fines of more than $1 million for alleged illegally dumping of saltwater on a road, while criminal charges have been filed against the driver.

Sections of Interstate 540 and Highway 71 in northwest Arkansas will be receiving a new Interstate highway designation soon, according to the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department.

In West Islip closed due to accident on The Southern St Pkwy WB between Robert Moses Causeway/X40 and before Rt-231/Deer Park Ave/X39 in North Babylon.

My father, the Navy Master Chief, was stationed along with his family on the east coast, the west coast, Alaska and Scotland.

A man believes he was "dispatched by the Lord" to help deliver a baby in the lobby of a Denny's restaurant.

Eric Bonhomme, a Long Island trucker, has been charged with trying to avoid a bridge toll with a license plate on hinges.

The Hendrickson Vehicle Suspension Institute scheduled its next session of hands-on technical suspension training for the heavy-duty transportation industry.

The tanker trucking company Kenan Transport will pay $27,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Thursday.

Long time automotive aftermarket and heavy-duty industry executive, John. F. Lorimer retired on April 1, after 44 years in the industry.

SAN PEDRO >> Truck drivers who deliver goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach came before Los Angeles harbor leaders on Thursday to voice their concerns about what they say are deplorable working conditions at a Rancho Dominguez company.

The report cites a recent reader survey by Overdrive , a national trucking magazine, in which a majority of respondents said they would retire or look for other work before they'd operate with an ELD.

The Missouri Department of Transportation has launched the next phase of the Missouri Freight Plan to engage business and local leaders, along with freight and industry stakeholders, in a discussion regarding funding of Missouri's freight infrastructure.

Micronet, an Israeli firm, is the largest producer of in-cab mobile terminals used in fleet vehicles such as trucks and taxis, according to industry data.

In 32 years as a truck driver and seven years as a transportation broker, DuWayne Marshall has seen it all: brokers who pay late or not at all; brokers who go bankrupt; brokers who run outright scams.

A truck driver was released from custody overnight after a 12-year-old boy was struck and killed by a semi at the corner of Indianapolis Blvd. and 119th in Whiting, Ind.

Online freight marketplace uShip has announced three top national less-than-truckload carriers have committed to uShip's shipper-direct LTL spot rate marketplace.

Sauk Rapids trucker makes special delivery in a Denny's on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2014/04/16/sauk-rapids-trucker-makes-special-delivery-dennys/7798403/ Longtime truck driver Fred Robatcek of Sauk Rapids believes he was dispatched by Jesus the day he helped a stranger give birth in the lobby of a Denny's in Texarkana, ... (more)