Minnesota Alerts Truckers to New Federal CDL Requirements

By |2025-04-15T08:19:57-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 11:45 AM|Trucking News|

(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

FMCSA Removes Two Chiropractors for Deficient Driver Exams

By |2025-04-15T08:20:02-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 10:36 AM|Trucking News|

(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 Opens Fifth-Generation Cascadia Order Book

By |2025-04-15T04:20:29-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 10:04 AM|Trucking News|

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

Tariff Exemptions on Electronics Could Be Temporary

By |2025-04-14T16:24:56-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 8:55 AM|Trucking News|

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

NYC Rolls Out Pilot to Add 45 Metered Truck Parking Spaces

By |2025-04-14T07:00:00-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 7:00 AM|Trucking News|

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

NYC Rolls Out Pilot to Add 45 Metered Truck Parking Spaces

By |2025-04-14T07:00:00-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 7:00 AM|Trucking News|

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

Trump Announces Chips, Drug Probes, Opening Door to Tariffs

By |2025-04-15T12:19:52-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 5:09 AM|Trucking News|

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

Trump’s Tariff Rationale Challenged in Suit by Small Firms

By |2025-04-15T12:19:55-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 3:43 AM|Trucking News|

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

Autonomous Tech Firm Kodiak Clears Runway for Public Launch

By |2025-04-15T12:20:05-05:00April 14th, 2025 at 2:48 AM|Trucking News|

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

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