Drivers should expect to see increased patrols along a busy Tennessee interstate as multiple law enforcement agencies partner to crack down on violations. The enforcement effort, dubbed “Operation Impact I-24,” will take place starting at 12 a.m. Friday morning, March 14, through 11:59 p.m. Friday night.The Tennessee Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies will ...more

A motorist recently filmed a shipping container getting knocked neatly off of a tractor trailer trying to squeeze underneath a railroad bridge.  The video was filmed on Southfield Road near Interstate 75 in Detroit, Michigan just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11th, reported 7 ABC.In the video, the truck driver heads underneath the railroad ...more

One person was critically injured while hooking up a trailer outside of a warehouse in North Carolina on Thursday.  The incident happened on the morning of March 13th in Charlotte, North Carolina at around 7 a.m. near Crafters Lane and East Westinghouse Boulevard. According to Queen City News, one person was working to hook a trailer ...more

As a major North American trade war heats up, truckers are already seeing dramatic changes that they say threatens the safety of the supply chain in the U.S. and Canada. As the Trump Administration levies tariffs or the threat of tariffs against Mexico, China, Canada, and European countries, countries are responding with their own retaliatory ...more

The Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) is investigating a single vehicle collision that claimed the life of a truck driver on Wednesday. The crash occurred around 10 p.m. on March 12 on I-80 at mile marker 78 in the Grantsville, Utah, area.UHP said that a blue semi truck was eastbound on I-80 when it rolled over ...more

A sign marks the international boundary between Canada and the United States in Blaine, Wash. (David Ryder/Bloomberg) Canada announced new 25% counter-tariffs on about C$30 billion ($20.8 billion) of U.S.-made items after the Trump administration went ahead with global levies on imports of steel and aluminum. The retaliatory measures will target U.S. steel and aluminum ...more

A shopper checks eggs at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill. (Nam Y. Huh/AP/File) WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation slowed last month for the first time since September even as additional tariffs on steel and aluminum that kicked in March 12 threaten to send prices higher. The consumer price index increased 2.8% in February from a ...more

(Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg News) Northvolt AB filed for bankruptcy in Sweden, bringing to an end a company that was once seen as the future of Europe’s battery production. The Swedish supplier for electric vehicle manufacturers will see its business and assets sold by a court-appointed trustee, according to a statement on March 12. It had already ...more

EU flags in front of the European Commission. (Mlenny/Getty Images) BRUSSELS — The European Union on March 12 announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. The world’s biggest trading bloc was ...more

Spools of steel in the yard at an ArcelorMittal Dofasco facility in Hamilton, Ontario, on March 11. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% on March 12, promising that the taxes would help create U.S. factory jobs at a time when his seesawing tariff ...more