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By |2025-07-18T07:23:46-05:00July 17th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

The Idaho State Police (ISP) is asking motorists to drive with more caution around loaded semi trucks following a recent load spill caused by a “reckless” car driver. At 9:38 a.m. on July 16, 2025, ISP responded to a reported accident on I-86 at mile marker 44, just east of American Falls.Troopers say that a ...more

By |2025-07-18T07:23:41-05:00July 17th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

West Virginia officials announced that expanded truck parking is coming to three state facilities through federal grant funding. On July 11, 2025, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced a $24,837,048 grant for the West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) through the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) BUILD program to construct more truck parking.The grant will ...more

By |2025-07-18T11:25:01-05:00July 17th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently called out a commercial vehicle driver for “less-than-stellar decision-making” related to speeding and drug infractions. On July 14, troopers with CHP’s Mountain Pass Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility, located in Nipton, California, made a teaching moment out of a CMV driver’s bad day.“Transporting alcohol or drugs in the cab of ...more

By |2025-07-18T11:24:56-05:00July 17th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A $90 million verdict awarded to a family injured in a crash with a Werner Enterprises semi truck has been overturned more than a decade after the fatal accident.  The December 2014 crash happened on Interstate 20 near Odessa, Texas when an F-150 pickup truck lost control in icy conditions and crossed the center median, ...more

By |2025-07-17T15:24:00-05:00July 17th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A national trucking company has agreed to pay more than $900,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against over-the-road truck drivers with medical conditions. Western Distributing Co. is to pay $919,000 in monetary relief to sixty victims of discrimination in order to settle a federal lawsuit, according to a July 16 statement issued by the ...more

J.B. Hunt Posts Q2 Profit Dip on Flat $2.93 Billion Revenue

By |2025-07-17T08:21:26-05:00July 16th, 2025 at 12:52 PM|Trucking News|

J.B. Hunt's Dedicated Contract Services revenue inched down 0.5% to $846.8 million from $851 million in the year-earlier period. (J.B. Hunt 360 via X) J.B. Hunt Transport Services maintained balanced revenue with the prior-year period during the second quarter of 2025, the company reported July 15. The Lowell, Ark.-based carrier posted net earnings of $128.6 ...more

CEO Radstrom Calls Uncertainty Daimler’s Biggest Challenge

By |2025-07-17T04:19:48-05:00July 16th, 2025 at 12:02 PM|Trucking News|

Karin Radstrom by Daimler Truck STUTTGART, Germany — Daimler Truck chief executive Karin Rådström says tariffs are not the biggest challenge facing the commercial vehicle maker in the United States, because the company carries out a large proportion of its manufacturing in the country. While higher prices for raw materials such as steel, aluminum and ...more

New EV Charging Infrastructure Booms in Q2

By |2025-07-17T04:19:52-05:00July 16th, 2025 at 11:17 AM|Trucking News|

Tesla vehicles charge at a charging station in Pittsburgh. (Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) While buying an electric vehicle is about to get slightly more expensive for some Americans, charging one just got quite a bit easier. Some 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the U.S. in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom ...more

Cheap US Biofuels May Lead to Beer, Meat Shortages in UK

By |2025-07-17T04:19:57-05:00July 16th, 2025 at 9:59 AM|Trucking News|

The closing of a single U.K. fertilizer plant in 2022 squeezed supply of CO2, resulting in shortages of beer. (Hollie Adams/Bloomberg News) A 1.4 billion-liter tide of cheap U.S. biofuels threatens to wipe out both of the U.K.’s domestic ethanol producers, and could also disrupt a range of British industries from meatpacking to making beer. ...more

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