A sign outside a BYD showroom in Budapest, Hungary. (Akos Stiller/Bloomberg News) BYD Co., a Chinese automaker, is turning heads with claims that it has developed an electric-vehicle platform enabling drivers to charge an EV in roughly the same time it takes to refuel a gasoline car. From "more features for no more price" and ...more

A truck driver gives his depressing opinion on the trucking industry and life in it in this brief interview.  In the clip, the truck driver is fueling up when the filming man approaches him and asks the driver of 27 years if he’d recommend trucking to others. “No,” he says matter of factly. “You hate it?” ...more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers (CBP) seized hundreds of pounds of cocaine from multiple commercial vehicles passing through a California Port of Entry in a two day period. The drug seizures took place on March 4 and March 5, 2025, at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry Commercial Facility located in Otay Mesa, California, and ...more

A truck driver managed to leap over a very dangerous situation unscathed after crashing his truck and sparking a fire.  The crash happened near Akron, Ohio on Sunday, March 16th on northbound Interstate 77. According to 12 News, the driver initially hit the median of the interstate, but soon pulled over to the shoulder. The truck ...more

Truck stop giant Pilot now offers B99 biodiesel for commercial trucking fleets at an Illinois location, with more locations coming soon. On March 18, Pilot declared itself the “first travel center network to offer B99 biodiesel for fleets” as part of a partnership with PepsiCo, ADM, a global agricultural supply chain manager and processor, and ...more

A driver turned himself in late last week after a warrant was issued for his arrest for a 2024 wreck that left another trucker dead.  The accident happened on February 29th, 2024 on Interstate 84 east near exit 72 in Union, Connecticut. The accused truck driver, 33-year-old James Desruisseaux, was arrested just last week on ...more

Authorities have increased the cash reward for information on a truck driver found shot near his semi truck in Midland, Texas, last year. Crime Stoppers of Midland recently announced a $7000 cash reward in hopes of obtaining leads in the homicide of 26 year old truck driver Austin Winn.Police believe that Winn was murdered on ...more

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has said that there is still no statement and no bodycam footage to release from the incident involving an undercover officer and a truck driver in his 70s.  The shooting happened during rush hour on March 10th when a semi truck and an off-duty undercover officer in an unmarked car “came ...more

Recently released court records show that the CEO who was allegedly murdered by his own driver owed the man a “substantial amount of money”. 46-year-old ATG Truckload CEO, Dane Koteski, was found “lying face down in a pool of blood” in his office as it burned on March 5th in Crestwood, Illinois. On Sunday, March ...more

The Willkomm family announced the transfer of ownership of a Wisconsin truck stop to a large travel center chain. The Willkomm family announced that the Racine PETRO truck stop (located at 717 S. Sylvania Ave. in Sturtevant, Wisconsin), the TA Truck Service, and the Blue Badger Bar & Grill are under the ownership of TA ...more