A Chevrolet Volt at a GM event. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images via Bloomberg News) DETROIT — Electric vehicles made by General Motors will be able to use much of Tesla’s extensive charging network beginning early next year under an agreement the two companies announced June 8. In addition, GM will adopt Tesla’s connector, the plug that ...more

Diesel trucks refuel at a truck stop. (Bim/Getty Images) Iowa is leading 19 states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for backing California’s future ban on heavy diesel vehicles in a purported attempt to regulate traditional trucking “out of existence through mandating net-zero emissions standards.” The 51-page legal action against the EPA ...more

Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell is calling on colleagues to support the Railway Safety Act.(Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) A series of bills meant to expedite supply chain operations and improve freight rail safety await consideration in the U.S. House and the Senate. Committee-passed legislation tackling truck parking concerns, the infrastructure permitting process and regulations ...more

Julie Su at her nomination announcement March 1. (Susan Walsh/AP) A vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor is on the radar for Senate Democrats, but Republicans continue to voice concerns about the candidate’s record on labor policy. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters June 7 he ...more

A Dorsey chassis. Thousands of these chassis are now in storage due to the CBP ruling. (Dorsey Intermodal via Facebook) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has ruled that chassis manufacturing company Pitts Enterprises and subsidiary company Dorsey Intermodal knowingly imported predominantly finished chassis from China that were being marketed as having been made ...more

ryasick/Getty Images At a recent two-day virtual meeting, officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asked members of the agency’s motor carrier advisory committee for some ideas on how the agency could improve truck safety. Committee members responded, offering officials a variety of candid suggestions. Broadly, the 25-member Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee wants ...more

On Thursday, Volvo announced major plans to begin autonomous truck operations for customers in Texas. In a June 8 announcement,  Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.) announced that it opened offices in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of a larger plan to set up the company’s first autonomous freight corridors that will run from Dallas Forth Worth to El Paso and from ...more

A bull broke free from a trailer in Texas over the weekend, prompting an hours-long chase.  The incident happened in Denton, Texas on Saturday, June 3rd. According to KLTV 7, the bull’s owner parked his trailer outside of a Taco Casa in Denton and went inside to eat, leaving the bull in the trailer.  As the ...more

Officers with Arizona’s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Task Force (CVETF) recently found thousands of rounds of ammunition concealed in tires while performing a traffic stop near Tucson. On June 3, a CVETF trooper stopped a vehicle on I-19 southbound near Tucson for “multiple moving violations,” according to a news release from the Arizona Department of Public ...more

A truck driver was arrested in Arizona on more than a dozen counts after a roadside inspection allegedly uncovered a human and drug smuggling attempt. Thirty-year old Arizona-based truck driver Eduardo A. Hernandez faces charges of possession and transportation of a narcotic drug for sale, possession and transportation of a dangerous drug for sale, and ...more