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

A motorcyclist is dead after falling off his bike on the Palmetto Expressway early on Tuesday morning.  The accident happened at about 5:40 a.m. on the Palmette Expressway at Northwest 67th Avenue on March 4th near Miami Lakes, Florida.The Florida Highway Patrol says that the man on the motorcycle “lost control and fell off… coming ...more

On Tuesday, the overall winners for the annual CarriersEdge ‘Best Fleets to Drive For’ awards were announced. CarriersEdge named the winners of the 2025 Best Fleets to Drive For honors at an event held at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in North Carolina on March 4.The 2025 award for Best Overall Fleet in the small ...more

The family of a motorist found in a frozen lake has filed a lawsuit against the truck driver accused of pushing his car into the water without reporting it.  The accident happened on January 19th on a bridge over Cheat Lake in West Virginia. The motorist, Kevin Lataille, was not found inside of his submerged ...more

A bill recently introduced in Arkansas would crack down on non-citizens working as commercial truck drivers as well as the carriers that employ them. On February 25, the The Secure Roads And Safe Trucking Act Of 2025 (HB1569) was introduced in the Arkansas state legislature by Rep. Wayne Long, Sen. John Payton, and Rep. Jon ...more

The cost to build a crossover utility vehicle will rise by at least $4,000, while the increase would be three times that for an electric vehicle. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Impending tariffs on Canada and Mexico risk driving up U.S. car prices by as much as $12,000, further squeezing consumers and wreaking havoc across the ...more

Producers may be hard-pressed to pass on higher costs should sales continue to weaken. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg News) U.S. factory activity last month edged closer to stagnation as orders and employment contracted, while a gauge of prices paid for materials surged to the highest since June 2022. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index slipped by ...more