By |2025-06-25T08:17:57-05:00June 24th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A new Florida law going into effect next week cracks down on excessive speeding with stricter punishments. On July 1, 2025, former House Bill 351, sponsored by State Reps. Representatives Danny Alvarez and Susan Plasencia, will go into effect.The law targets “excessive speeders,” defined as a driver who either exceeds the speed limit by 50 ...more

By |2025-06-25T08:18:13-05:00June 24th, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A man will serve more than six years in prison for the kidnapping of a trucker who was able to escape the situation when the man dozed off.  The incident happened on January 13th, 2023. The man, Barry Perez, was sentenced on June 20th, 2025. According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Perez initially stole a ...more

Fred Smith, FedEx Chairman and Founder, Dies at 80

By |2025-06-23T04:31:28-05:00June 22nd, 2025 at 10:44 AM|Trucking News|

“Fred Smith was a titan of the trucking industry," Spear said. (Anna Moneymaker/Bloomberg) Fred Smith, who transformed the parcel shipping industry by risking his family’s fortune to found FedEx Corp. in 1971, has died. He was 80. “It is with profound sadness and a heavy heart that I share that Frederick W. Smith, our founder ...more

Home Depot Challenges Brad Jacobs-Led QXO for Supplier Deal

By |2025-06-20T09:14:00-05:00June 20th, 2025 at 9:14 AM|Trucking News|

(Wilfredo Lee/AP/File) Home Depot Inc. has made an offer for GMS Inc., potentially setting off a bidding war with QXO Inc. which this week made a $5 billion offer for the building products distributor, the Wall Street Journal reported June 19. The offer from Home Depot, the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, is for an undetermined ...more

NYC Sets Smaller Driver Pay Raise After Uber, Lyft Resistance

By |2025-06-23T04:47:38-05:00June 20th, 2025 at 5:22 AM|Trucking News|

The Lyft logo visible on a rideshare car in New York City. (John Taggart/Bloomberg News) New York City on June 20 announced new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a smaller-than-proposed 5% increase following pushback from Uber Technologies and Lyft Inc. An earlier proposal called for a 6.1% pay boost. The finalized regulations from ...more

DAT, OTR Settle Dispute Over Outgo Acquisition

By |2025-06-23T05:20:08-05:00June 20th, 2025 at 5:05 AM|Trucking News|

Neither company provided details on what the settlement involved. (Ashi Sae Yang/Getty Images) DAT Freight & Analytics and OTR Solutions this week resolved a dispute over the former’s acquisition of Seattle-based factoring specialist Outgo in May. A potentially explosive June 17 emergency hearing in the Superior Court of Cobb County in Georgia was canceled after ...more

10 Roads Express Reaches Tentative Agreement With Teamsters

By |2025-06-23T06:40:58-05:00June 20th, 2025 at 4:33 AM|Trucking News|

The eight-state strike began Feb. 18, with the Teamsters accusing 10 Roads of refusing to bargain in good faith. (10 Roads Express via X). A four-month-long strike at Iowa-based contract carrier 10 Roads Express by members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has taken a major step toward resolution. Carter Lake-based 10 Roads reached a ...more

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