This week, an Arkansas lawmaker withdrew high-profile legislation increasing restrictions and penalties for non-citizen commercial vehicle drivers, but a new bill with a specific focus on English language has taken its place. In late February 2025, the Secure Roads And Safe Trucking Act Of 2025 (HB1569) was introduced in the Arkansas state legislature by Rep. ...more

Officers Nebraska are warning drivers to “get off your cell phones” after a crash between two semi trucks ripped open a trailer.  The accident happened on Sunday, April 6th at about 2:45 p.m. on eastbound Interstate 80 near mile marker 353 in York, Nebraska.According to News Channel Nebraska, a tractor trailer was traveling in the ...more

Canadian police have arrested a second person in connection with a double broking scheme to steal loaded trailers containing cargo worth millions of dollars. Police launched an investigation after several victims reported that their trailers loaded with freight were stolen by a transportation company known as All Days Trucking between December 2024 and January 2025, ...more

A man was arrested after launching an attack on a sleeping truck driver and assaulting responding police officers at a trucking company in Pennsylvania earlier this month.  The accident happened on April 2nd outside NVK Logistics on the 2800 block of Turnpike Industrial Drive in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to Fox 43, the truck driver was ...more

A trucker was treated to a serious surprise when he purchased a pair of scratchers lottery tickets at a Virginia truck stop. Wisconsin-based truck driver Patrick Golz stopped in at a Love’s Travel Stop in Lambsburg, Virginia, just off I-77, as he was traveling on his regular route, according to a news release from the Virginia ...more

The truck driver accused of being under the influence of central nervous system depressants when he crashed into a line of traffic on Interstate 35 was sober at the time of the wreck and is now seeking release from jail, his lawyer says. The 11 p.m. wreck on March 13th along Interstate 35 in a ...more

The Iowa State Patrol Commercial Motor Vehicle Unit (ISPCMVU) sidelined a “dangerous vehicle” spotted last night on I-380. Iowa troopers encountered the ill-maintained commercial vehicle on Monday night on I-380 “trying to make it from Iowa to Tennessee.”“In addition to the violations shown here, as well as many others, the driver did not have a ...more

(mntnvision/Getty Images) The U.S. is poised to more than double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 34.45%, putting more pressure on U.S. materials costs even before President Donald Trump places any new tariffs on the sector. The U.S. currently levies countervailing and anti-dumping duties totaling 14.4%, a level that was set last year. Those are ...more

Comments on the Federal Register announcement are due on or before May 5. (Willowpix/Getty Images) Keying off previous presidential executive orders regarding streamlining regulations, the Department of Transportation is reaching out to truckers, trade organizations and small businesses for ideas on how to “ensure lawful regulations, reduce regulations and control regulatory costs.” President Donald Trump’s ...more

(simon2579/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on China on April 7, raising fresh concerns that his drive to rebalance the global economy could lead to a trade war. Trump’s threat, which he delivered on social media, came after China said it would retaliate against U.S. tariffs announced last week. “If China ...more