A motorcyclist is dead after falling off his bike on the Palmetto Expressway early on Tuesday morning.  The accident happened at about 5:40 a.m. on the Palmette Expressway at Northwest 67th Avenue on March 4th near Miami Lakes, Florida.The Florida Highway Patrol says that the man on the motorcycle “lost control and fell off… coming ...more

A Texas resident is facing years in federal prison for two separate human smuggling incidents involving semi trucks. Joe Adam Escobedo, 31, was sentenced to 69 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of ...more

A truck driver died in the hospital after crashing into the back of a another semi truck in east Texas early on Tuesday morning.  The accident happened on March 4th, 2025 at about 5:14 a.m. in Bridge City, Texas in the 500 block of Texas Avenue. According to Fox4Beaumont, 48-year-old Keith Kuffler was driving a 2016 ...more

The CEO of a trucking company is sounding the alarm about the prevalence of cargo theft in trucking.  Adam Blanchard, Co-founder and CEO of Double Diamond Transportation & Tanager Logistics testified before congress on Thursday, February 27th to tell the story of how his company became the victim of an elaborate cargo theft scheme. “About a ...more

An autonomous trucking company laid out plans for launching a driverless commercial freight lane in Texas this year. On March 4, Houston-headquartered Bot Auto issued a statement promising “driver-out” freight operations to launch in 2025 with “continuous autonomous trucking operations between Houston and San Antonio.”Bot Auto plans to run the driver-out Houston to San Antonio ...more

14 people were injured in a crash involving 12 cars on an interstate in Rhode Island on Tuesday morning.  The accident happened on Tuesday morning, March 4th just before 9 a.m. on Interstate 195 in East Providence, Rhode Island. “A tractor-trailer traveling west failed to stop for traffic, colliding with approximately twelve vehicles,” Rhode Island State Police ...more

As tariffs go into effect on American trade partners, one of the nation’s largest trucking trade groups is warning the White House that they could have a devastating impact on the U.S. trucking industry. On March 4, the Trump administration fulfilled its promise to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% ...more

The cost to build a crossover utility vehicle will rise by at least $4,000, while the increase would be three times that for an electric vehicle. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Impending tariffs on Canada and Mexico risk driving up U.S. car prices by as much as $12,000, further squeezing consumers and wreaking havoc across the ...more

Producers may be hard-pressed to pass on higher costs should sales continue to weaken. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg News) U.S. factory activity last month edged closer to stagnation as orders and employment contracted, while a gauge of prices paid for materials surged to the highest since June 2022. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index slipped by ...more

McMullen served as Kroger’s CEO for more than a decade. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg News) Kroger Co. replaced CEO Rodney McMullen following an investigation into his personal conduct, which the U.S. supermarket chain said was unrelated to the company’s financial performance and didn’t involve Kroger employees. Lead director Ron Sargent, 69, was named chairman and interim CEO ...more