Firefighters battled a trucking company fire for about six hours in Illinois earlier this week.  The incident occurred just after noon on June 25th in the 2200 block of 5th Street in Lincoln, Illinois. According to WCIA, a fire at Lincoln Transload and Processing started in the basement level and traveled through the duct work to ...more

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy rolled out a wide-ranging plan designed to support the trucking industry by cutting regulations, cracking down on bad actors, and increasing truck parking. On Friday, June 27, Duffy publicly debuted a “Pro-Trucker Package” consisting of regulatory changes and initiatives “designed to improve the lives of America’s truck drivers.”Duffy’s package ...more

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) announced that a major interstate shuttered by a rockslide earlier this month has partially reopened. On June 27, TDOT announced that I-40 has reopened to traffic near the North Carolina and Tennessee state line. Officials opened one lane in each direction, and a lower speed limit is in place.“Crews ...more

This week, Illinois State Police (ISP) weighed thousands of trucks during a 72 hour commercial vehicle enforcement effort. ISP troopers conducted a “Commercial Vehicle Safety Detail” June 23 through 25, 2025, at a fixed scale located in Montgomery County.“Officers successfully enforced state and federal motor carrier safety regulations by conducting North American Standard Inspections, checking ...more

A police department in Georgia were able to spot a thief climbing into the back of a tractor trailer to hide thanks to the use of an overhead drone.  The incident happened in Forest Park, Georgia on June 17th when police received reports of a man attempting to use stolen credit cards at an Army ...more

Officials in the town of Old Fort, North Carolina, shared a touching tribute to a dump truck driver who lost his life when his brakes failed earlier this month. The crash took place on the morning of June 17, 2025, as 65 year old Georgia resident Ralph Hibbert was making the six-mile decent on eastbound ...more

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. (Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg) European Union leaders are set to debate their strategy in response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with the likely choices coming down to accepting an unbalanced deal or risking escalation by striking back. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will brief EU ...more

Shipping containers on a storage lot at the Port of Brisbane in Brisbane, Australia. (Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg News) Global merchandise trade accelerated in the World Trade Organization’s latest assessment, with a surge in imports tied to tariff stockpiling outweighing a slowdown in export orders. The WTO’s goods barometer rose to 103.5 in the first quarter, the ...more

(Nathan Howard/Bloomberg) The U.S. merchandise-trade deficit unexpectedly widened in May on the biggest drop in exports since the onset of the pandemic, while imports were little changed. The shortfall in goods trade grew 11.1% to $96.6 billion, Commerce Department data showed June 26. The figure was larger than the $86.1 billion median estimate in a ...more

(Randy Holt/Associated Press) Associated British Food Plc’s Vivergo ethanol plant, one of only two major sites in the nation, has begun closing-down procedures as a flood of U.S. duty-free products looks set to wipe out production in the U.K. A consultation with employees to enact a wind-down of operations of the site in northern England ...more