ATD President Jacqueline Gelb presents Truckworx Kenworth CEO Will Bruser with the 2025 ATD Truck Dealer of the Year award. (American Truck Dealers) American Truck Dealers honored Truckworx Kenworth CEO Will Bruser with its 2025 Truck Dealer of the Year award at its ATD Show 2025 in New Orleans. The award recognizes commercial-truck dealers for ...more
Shares in Phillips 66 have fallen more than 15% in New York trading over the last 12 months. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News) Elliott Investment Management is heading toward a proxy battle with Phillips 66 after failing to reach an agreement with the energy group’s leadership on a path to improving performance. The activist investor has nominated ...more
Trucks cross the Peace Bridge at the Canada-U.S. border in Fort Erie, Ontario, on Feb. 3. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump on March 4 implemented his long-threatened 25% tariffs on goods being imported from Canada and Mexico, a move that trucking experts said could have major implications for the industry and across supply chains. “Supply ...more
The law mandates that all vehicles traveling on the Interstate 70 mountain corridor carry tire chains from Sept. 1 to May 31. (Colorado State Patrol via X) The Colorado State Patrol has launched an enforcement effort over 149 miles on the Interstate 70 mountain corridor to ensure truckers comply with a new law requiring drivers ...more
As tariffs go into effect on American trade partners, one of the nation’s largest trucking trade groups is warning the White House that they could have a devastating impact on the U.S. trucking industry. On March 4, the Trump administration fulfilled its promise to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% ...more
14 people were injured in a crash involving 12 cars on an interstate in Rhode Island on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on Tuesday morning, March 4th just before 9 a.m. on Interstate 195 in East Providence, Rhode Island. “A tractor-trailer traveling west failed to stop for traffic, colliding with approximately twelve vehicles,” Rhode Island State Police ...more
An autonomous trucking company laid out plans for launching a driverless commercial freight lane in Texas this year. On March 4, Houston-headquartered Bot Auto issued a statement promising “driver-out” freight operations to launch in 2025 with “continuous autonomous trucking operations between Houston and San Antonio.”Bot Auto plans to run the driver-out Houston to San Antonio ...more
The CEO of a trucking company is sounding the alarm about the prevalence of cargo theft in trucking. Adam Blanchard, Co-founder and CEO of Double Diamond Transportation & Tanager Logistics testified before congress on Thursday, February 27th to tell the story of how his company became the victim of an elaborate cargo theft scheme. “About a ...more
A truck driver died in the hospital after crashing into the back of a another semi truck in east Texas early on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on March 4th, 2025 at about 5:14 a.m. in Bridge City, Texas in the 500 block of Texas Avenue. According to Fox4Beaumont, 48-year-old Keith Kuffler was driving a 2016 ...more
A Texas resident is facing years in federal prison for two separate human smuggling incidents involving semi trucks. Joe Adam Escobedo, 31, was sentenced to 69 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of ...more
