The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced on Friday that certain Biden Administration requirements have been removed from a commercial vehicle safety grant program. In a June 6 statement, FMCSA announced the availability of up to $89.4 million in competitive funding through the Commercial Driver’s License Program Implementation (CDLPI) grant.The agency also announced that ...more

A new suspect has been named in the investigation into an attack at an Arizona rest stop that left a truck driver with severe brain injuries.  Detectives from the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office have identified a new suspect in the assault of a truck driver at the rest area near San Simon, Arizona. The victim, ...more

A cargo ship arrives at the port of Barcelona in Spain. (Angel Garcia/Bloomberg) The European Commission has formally launched a surveillance tool to monitor any trade diversion resulting from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, as initial results revealed a surge of imports in many goods. A first set of analysis published by the bloc’s executive ...more

Workers paint a truck chassis at the Mack Trucks facility in Macungie, Pa., in 2018. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) North American Class 8 truck orders continued to trend below the previous year but did see a surprise sequential improvement during May, according to ACT Research. ACT preliminary data showed orders decreased 44% year over year to 13,200 ...more

Total used Class 8 truck sales in 2025 are off about 10% compared to 2024. (Palmer Truck Sales via Facebook) Used Class 8 truck sales increased on a year-over-year basis in April, while prices once again declined, with market conditions continuing to be slower, ACT Research reported. Sales volume increased 3.5% to 23,600 units from ...more

(cbarnesphotography/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a “very positive conclusion” on June 5, announcing that the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals. It was the first call between the two ...more

P&G manufactures Tide detergent. (Steve Helber/file/AP) Procter & Gamble will cut up to 7,000 jobs, or approximately 6% of its global workforce, over the next two years as the maker of Tide detergent and Pampers diapers wrestles with tariff-related costs and customers who have grown anxious about the economy. The job cuts, announced at the ...more

The 2026 Ram 1500 is available with a Hemi V8 engine. (Ram Trucks) Ram is putting the Hemi V8 engine back in its light-duty pickup trucks, part of a blitz of changes from brand head Tim Kuniskis to claw back lost share in the hyper-competitive U.S. truck market. Under Stellantis NV’s previous chief executive, Carlos ...more

A worker at the Bayport Container Terminal at the port of Houston in Seabrook, Texas. (Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg) The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April by the most on record on the largest-ever plunge in imports, illustrating an abrupt end to the massive front-loading of goods by some companies ahead of higher tariffs. The gap in ...more

Xi Jinping. (Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have spoken amid stalled negotiations between both countries over tariffs that have roiled global trade. The discussion on June 5 followed Trump suggesting it was tough to reach a deal with Xi. “I like President XI of China, always have, ...more