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

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) recently arrested three individuals for a “large-scale diesel theft.” On April 8, MCSO announced the arrest of the following three men on charges of engaging in organized crime- criminal syndicate and theft by unlawful taking or disposition all others $10,000 ...more

This truck driver still isn’t planning to hang it up after more than three decades and three million miles behind the wheel of a semi truck.  In this brief interview clip, the driver, Jim, divulges some information that definitely wouldn’t fly in today’s trucking industry – he’s been driving since he was 14 years old. “My ...more

Students at an elementary school in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, recently got a chance to learn more about the trucking industry thanks to a nearby trade school’s truck driver training program. On April 9, students at Timber Ridge Elementary in Broken Arrow were treated to a visit from members of Central Tech‘s Truck Driver Training program ...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