A severe winter weather storm forced transportation officials to close major roadways in Nebraska and Wyoming on Tuesday morning. Around 9 a.m. on December 13, officials announced that I-80 in Nebraska is closed to westbound traffic from North Platte to the Wyoming border. I-80 is also closed in both directions at North Platte (mile marker ...more

A line of storms has brought tornado warnings to the Dallas Fort Worth area as it moves through north Texas on Tuesday morning.  The bad weather began west of the Dallas Fort Worth area at around 4 a.m. and a Tornado Watch is in effect for most of North Texas through 11 a.m. on Tuesday, ...more

The storm that drenched California, dropped snow by the foot across the Sierra Nevada and knocked out power to thousands is drifting east, threatening to bring tornadoes to some areas of the U.S. later this week. Snow and ice will drop across at least 15 western states from the border with Canada down to Mexico ...more

A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S CEO Soren Skou will step down and will be replaced by Vincent Clerc, the current head of the transport giant’s ocean and logistics business. Clerc, 50, will start Jan. 1 as part of a “planned CEO transition,” the Copenhagen-based company said on Dec. 12. Skou, 58, was a teenager when he joined ...more

Rivian Automotive Inc. is shelving plans to jointly build electric vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz AG, aborting a deal signed just three months ago to share costs and quickly scale up production. Rivian will no longer pursue the memorandum of understanding signed with the German automaker in September to invest in and jointly operate an ...more

The national average price of diesel continued its downward trajectory, falling 21.3 cents to $4.754 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released Dec. 12. Highlights Diesel has shed 38.7 cents a gallon in just the past two weeks and 58.7 cents since Oct. 24. Trucking’s main fuel is at its lowest cost since ...more

With the passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 earlier this year, the Federal Maritime Commission has continued its proactive approach in addressing the need for change that sparked the law. Truckers and their shipper partners are hopeful these efforts will offer relief by finally addressing unfair billing practices surrounding the assessment and ...more

DETROIT — Fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020 as people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs, according to an annual government report published Dec. 12. The fleet of new vehicles got 25.4 miles per gallon for the model year, while greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 2 ...more

Legislation that would approve funding for water infrastructure projects around the country has been finalized, congressional transportation leaders announced this month. Congress appears ready to clear for President Joe Biden the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 during this post-election lame duck session. The bill is included in comprehensive defense policy legislation. WRDA, sponsored by ...more

The early December oil spill in Kansas means that TC Energy Corp.’s Keystone pipeline has now leaked more crude oil than any other conduit on U.S. land in the past 12 years. The major line running from Canada into the U.S. Midwest was shut after a spill of 14,000 barrels a day, with some of ...more