A newly signed law in Maryland will crack down on drunk driving offenses committed by commercial vehicle drivers. On April 8, 2025, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed into law SB 187.The new law will require Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration to disqualify an individual from operating a commercial vehicle for one year if that person “drives ...more

Police in East Texas are asking the public for help in identifying a pickup passenger who threw an object at a trucker and left him with glass lodged in his eye.  The incident occurred on Friday, April 4th at around 1:30 p.m. on US Highway 96, ¾ of a mile south of Loop 500, just ...more

Mack Trucks debuted a new model that the company describes as “its most aerodynamic and driver-focused highway truck to date.” On April 8, Mack Trucks unveiled the Mack Pioneer, a Class 8 truck in development since 2017 that “represents the future of Mack’s highway offerings.”You can view the Mack Pioneer unveiling event in the video below. ...more

A truck driver has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after crashing while adjusting his radio nearly five years ago.  The crash happened on April 30th, 2020 on Interstate 75 in Macon, Georgia. According to 13 WMAZ, truck driver Arthur Waldrip was driving his commercial vehicle along I-75 when he looked down to adjust his ...more

The year’s biggest commercial vehicle inspection blitz is just weeks away — here’s what truckers need to know to prepare. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck inspection effort is scheduled for May 13 — 15, 2025, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.Inspectors will be paying special attention to two areas of emphasis during ...more

Containers and cranes at the Port of Balboa at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal in Panama City on Feb. 25. (Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg) Panama’s top auditor accused port operator CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. of wrongdoing, providing a potential pathway for the Central American country to wrest control of canal facilities caught up in a ...more

E-ZPass readers and license plate-scanning cameras over Park Avenue in New York in January. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) New York City’s congestion pricing program is likely to remain in place at least for the next several months while legal wrangling between state officials and the Trump administration continues. The jointly submitted timeline, proposed in a court filing ...more

Diesel's national average price is 42.2 cents less than at this time in 2024 despite adding 9 cents over the past three weeks. (vitpho/Getty Images The national average price for a gallon of diesel rose 4.7 cents to $3.639, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data released April 8. The increase is the third straight ...more

(Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Continental AG, one of Germany’s largest and most storied manufacturers, is returning to its roots, abandoning decades of expansion into auto and industrial parts to focus on its more profitable tires business. The Hanover-based supplier plans to offload its ContiTech industrial unit, it said April 8. A sale of the business, which makes ...more

Since 2021, American whiskey has entered the EU tariff-free. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) President Donald Trump rejected a European Union proposal to drop tariffs on all bilateral trade in industrial goods with the U.S., meaning that his 20% tariff on all EU imports is due to come into force April 9. Speaking at the White House ...more