This video serves as a friendly reminder that every interaction with DOT doesn’t have to be terrible.  In the video, a driver pulls up to some sort of road block with multiple officers on his way to pick up his load. “We’re required to do a monthly regulatory checkpoint,” the officer explains when the driver rolls ...more

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced a meeting to determine the cause of a multiple fatality crash involving parked commercial vehicles that occurred in Illinois in 2023. On April 30, 2025, the NTSB announced that a public board meeting is scheduled for May 20 to determine the probable cause of a crash that occurred at ...more

The Kansas Corporation Commission has granted a temporary hours of service waiver for drivers hauling fuel to alleviate “a bottleneck” causing shortages in the state.  Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency proclamation allowing the HOS waiver on April 30th. The Kansas Corporation Commission has since granted the waiver, which will last ...more

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) announced major action on English language proficiency (ELP) for truck drivers in compliance with direction from the White House. The CVSA announced that starting on June 25, 2025, non-compliance with existing federal regulations requiring commercial vehicle operators to be proficient in English is an out-of-service violation.This move by the CVSA ...more

The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) recently conducted a search warrant on a truck stop in Corinth, Mississippi, after receiving complaints about the sale of illegal substances. According to a statement released by ACSO on May 2, Alcorn County residents issued several complaints about stores selling illegal items such as Kratom and Tianeptine.Following these complaints, ...more

A trucking fraud expert says that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not doing enough to combat the fake addresses being used to hide companies.  Dale Prax, owner of Freight Validate, a company that tracks fraud and identity theft in the trucking industry, says that many alleged trucking companies are using fraudulent addresses to ...more

Troopers at a California Highway Patrol (CHP) checkpoint handed out several citations and out-of-service orders after conducting just a handful of commercial vehicle inspections. A roadside inspection checkpoint was recently set up in San Benito County, California, after CHP received “numerous complaints from the community.”The checkpoint was staffed by officers from CHP’s Gilroy Commercial Vehicle ...more

UPDATE 4 PM MAY 2——————- Florida police have located and arrested a truck driver following a double fatality crash on I-95 in Palm Bay on Friday morning, WESH reports.The crash victims have been identified as surveyors, who were standing on the shoulder of I-95 near their vehicle when they were struck. ORIGINAL ARTICLE———————The Florida Highway ...more

Schneider CEO Mark Rourke said, “We delivered results for the quarter in line with our expectations while navigating the fluid operating environment." Schneider reported year-over-year increases in revenue and earnings during the first quarter of 2025, the company reported May 1. The Green Bay, Wis.-based truckload motor carrier posted net income of $26.1 million, or ...more

Traffic moves along I-80 in Emeryville, Calif. (David Paul Moore/Bloomberg) Republicans moved a step closer May 1 to repealing a federal waiver allowing California to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a policy that had drawn opposition from automakers, fuel producers and President Donald Trump himself. The U.S. House voted 246-164 to roll back an Environmental ...more