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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ford Recalls 700,000 Vehicles Over Issue That Caused Fires
Ford Bronco Sport vehicles at a Ford dealership in Los Angeles. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg) Ford Motor Co. is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles to address a long-running issue over cracking in an auto part that can leak fuel into the engine and cause fires. The action applies to certain Bronco Sport and Escape models from 2020 to ...more