Trucker News

Any truck driver can say he or she is one of the safest in the state. But few can actually prove it each year -- at the Connecticut Truck Driving Championships.

He rarely comes out of the shabby two-bedroom bungalow he rents with his sister in the small town of Menifee, California, and when he does, hardly anyone notices.

A renewed debate about trucker safety is rolling down America's highways following a vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee that weakens the rest regulations of those who operate 18-wheelers.

The couple emigrated to Canada in 2008 from China where Lien had worked in advertising and gained a background in design.

Labor tensions are high at the largest port complex in the country - Los Angeles and Long Beach - which handles nearly half of all the cargo coming into the United States.

Labor tensions are high at the largest port complex in the country - Los Angeles and Long Beach - which handles nearly half of all the cargo coming into the United States.

In a show of support for their union siblings, longshore workers at the two busiest ports in the U.S. -- Los Angeles and Long Beach -- walked off the job Tuesday.

Dozens of longshore workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been ordered back to work after they walked off the job Monday to show support for striking truck drivers.

Abdi Tekin used to spend days waiting to clear this customs post on the border with Iraq, his truck among the hundreds lined up to ferry some $1 billion worth of goods a month to Turkey's second-biggest export market.

With West Coast longshoremen still negotiating a new contract, retailers are bringing holiday merchandise into the country at record levels to protect against potential supply chain disruptions, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Wednesday by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates, a maritime research and ... (more)

N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the designation of Route 15 as Interstate 99 between Corning, Steuben County, and the Pennsylvania border.

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello gave his support to striking truck drivers by singing protest songs in front of the Evergreen terminal on Terminal Island, CA, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014.

Bobit Business Media CEO Ty Bobit delivers a eulogy celebrating Ed, his father and company founder.

The Truckers Jamboree is hosted every year at the Iowa 80 Truckstop, I-80 Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa.

A century-old California law requires employers to provide paid time off during extended work shifts - under current law, a 10-minute rest break every four hours and a 30-minute meal period every five hours.

More than 120 truck drivers continue their strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

About three-dozen independent drivers rallied outside of the Port of Savannah on Tuesday to protest their working conditions.

Lawyers for trucking companies have filed lawsuits in three states against the parent company of International Trucks, claiming Navistar failed to disclose known defects and problems with its EPA 2010 MaxxForce engines.

Mercedes-Benz is already one of the leaders in developing autonomous driving technology for passenger cars, and now the company is extending this technology to a new segment: semi trucks.

Members of the Teamsters Union picket at LBCT in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., in support of a strike by port truck drivers Tuesday, July 8, 2014.