(Wright County MN via Facebook) Minnesota is making truckers aware of a federal mandate that took effect March 20 requiring proof of both legal U.S. domicile and state residency to renew a commercial driver license. “Driver’s license offices across the state will be unable to accept CDL applications without this documentation. This change is in ...more
(DPM/Getty Images) Federal trucking regulators are removing two Houston chiropractors from the federal register of medical examiners for failure to adequately perform physical qualification examinations on commercial motor vehicle drivers. The action potentially voids more than 15,000 medical examiner’s certificates issued to commercial vehicle drivers, who have until May 10 to obtain a new medical ...more
Freightliner on April 10 opened the order book for the fifth-generation Cascadia tractor. (Daimler Truck North America) Freightliner on April 10 opened the order book for the fifth-generation Cascadia tractor, the Daimler Truck North America unit unveiled in October. Prospects for orders in the months since a glitzy launch at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference ...more
In this photo provided by South Bow, a vacuum truck transfers oil into a storage tank at the scene of a spill of the Keystone oil pipeline. (South Bow via AP) BISMARCK, N.D. — Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons ...more
Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York displays iPhones. (Yuki Iwamura/File/AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tariff exemptions announced April 11 on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said April 13. White House officials, ...more
A truck navigates along 34th Street in New York City. (Alexander Shapovalov/Getty Images) New York City has launched a one-year experiment offering 45 metered truck parking spaces in three outer borough industrial business zones (IBZs) to curb illegal parking and give truckers a safe area to rest. “We understand the importance of truck deliveries in ...more
A truck navigates along 34th Street in New York City. (Alexander Shapovalov/Getty Images) New York City has launched a one-year experiment offering 45 metered truck parking spaces in three outer borough industrial business zones (IBZs) to curb illegal parking and give truckers a safe area to rest. “We understand the importance of truck deliveries in ...more
A pharmacy technician grabs prescription medicine off a shelf at a pharmacy in Midvale, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images) President Donald Trump’s administration pressed forward with plans to impose tariffs on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports by initiating probes led by the Commerce Department. The moves, announced April 14 in the Federal Register, are a precursor to ...more
A worker moves a shipping container at Felixstowe port in Felixstowe, United Kingdom, on April 9. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News) Several small U.S. businesses sued President Donald Trump over his “Liberation Day” tariffs in the latest legal challenge to his use of sweeping executive powers to extract concessions from foreign trade partners. Trump’s use of the ...more
The driverless trucks powered by its technology have also surpassed 750 hours of commercial operations across western Texas’ Permian Basin without a human driver on board. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) Kodiak Robotics is positioning itself to become publicly traded by entering into a definitive business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corp. II ...more
