Trucker News

One of the big issues surrounding rest area management is providing enough parking for long-haul truck drivers, who are limited by federal regulations on the hours they can remain on the road.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 13--One of Kansas City's highest-profile businesswomen shielded millions in income from taxes and then lied about it to federal investigators, a grand jury alleged Thursday.

A Mississauga trucker has been convicted of smuggling more than 150 pounds of marijuana into Canada via the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.

Tracy St. Pierre put $50 in her gas tank at 7-Eleven on McDougall Avenue and Tecumseh Road E. St. Pierre was commenting on a proposed hike in gasoline tax Thursday December 12, 2013.

Retail sales in the U.S. increased in November by the most in five months, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.

Truck Search is a kind of online job portal for those who are looking jobs as truck driver as well as transportation companies who are looking for truck drivers.

Italy's "pitchfork" protests spread to Rome on Thursday when hundreds of students clashed with police and threw firecrackers outside a university where government ministers were attending a conference.

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores is partnering with Truckers Against Trafficking to combat human trafficking in the U.S. TAT is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness among professional truck drivers and travel stop employees about human trafficking.

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry fell 0.7% in October from September, the first monthly decline after three months of increases, according to a new figures from U.S. Department of Transportation and its Freight Transportation Services Index.

On Nov. 12, two 911 callers reported a man lying along Interstate 88 alive and waving his arms, 12 hours before teacher Lee Catlin was eventually found dead along the highway.

In a message to DOT employees, Secretary Anthony Foxx thanked Porcari and said he has asked Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez to step in as Acting Deputy Secretary starting Jan. 1. Porcari led the Department's effort to streamline the infrastructure project approval process and cut red tape, major initiatives of the last highway bill.

Loveland Pass was closed Wednesday while crews removed a truck that rolled down an embankment Tuesday night.

Before I gained my truck licence last year, I held a one-dimensional stereotypical view of truck drivers.

A review of Ohio Highway Patrol records found 129 cases of road rage in 2011. A year later, the number of cases jumped to 158.

Though there are millions of truck drivers with smartphones, most of them live in a pen, paper and fax machine world when it comes to managing their driving records.

This is crunch time for Wreaths Across America, the annual project that puts floral laurels on the graves of deceased military people.

A security guard at the newly-opened Love's Travel Stop here shot and fatally wounded a truck driver Sunday night.

The CVTA held their fall 2013 conference last month in Washington, D.C. where the announcement that John Diab, COO of Smith & Solomon Commercial Driver Training will sit as their new Board of Directors Chairman.

FTR's Trucking Conditions Index reading of 9.18 in October, while down marginally from the previous month, remains high due to capacity tightness from regulatory drag.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, who congressional district includes Broome County, has described new federals rules on truck drivers as having a "negative" impact on trucking industry.