Northbound I-5 was shut down for about eight hours after a semi truck overturned and spilled a load of industrial pipes across the highway early on Thursday morning.  The accident happened on July 17th at around 2:44 p.m. north of the Bridge Bay exit on Northbound I-5 near Redding, California. According to ABC 7, the flatbed ...more

A national trucking company has agreed to pay more than $900,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against over-the-road truck drivers with medical conditions. Western Distributing Co. is to pay $919,000 in monetary relief to sixty victims of discrimination in order to settle a federal lawsuit, according to a July 16 statement issued by the ...more

A $90 million verdict awarded to a family injured in a crash with a Werner Enterprises semi truck has been overturned more than a decade after the fatal accident.  The December 2014 crash happened on Interstate 20 near Odessa, Texas when an F-150 pickup truck lost control in icy conditions and crossed the center median, ...more

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently called out a commercial vehicle driver for “less-than-stellar decision-making” related to speeding and drug infractions. On July 14, troopers with CHP’s Mountain Pass Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility, located in Nipton, California, made a teaching moment out of a CMV driver’s bad day.“Transporting alcohol or drugs in the cab of ...more

West Virginia officials announced that expanded truck parking is coming to three state facilities through federal grant funding. On July 11, 2025, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced a $24,837,048 grant for the West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) through the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) BUILD program to construct more truck parking.The grant will ...more

J.B. Hunt's Dedicated Contract Services revenue inched down 0.5% to $846.8 million from $851 million in the year-earlier period. (J.B. Hunt 360 via X) J.B. Hunt Transport Services maintained balanced revenue with the prior-year period during the second quarter of 2025, the company reported July 15. The Lowell, Ark.-based carrier posted net earnings of $128.6 ...more

Karin Radstrom by Daimler Truck STUTTGART, Germany — Daimler Truck chief executive Karin Rådström says tariffs are not the biggest challenge facing the commercial vehicle maker in the United States, because the company carries out a large proportion of its manufacturing in the country. While higher prices for raw materials such as steel, aluminum and ...more

Tesla vehicles charge at a charging station in Pittsburgh. (Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) While buying an electric vehicle is about to get slightly more expensive for some Americans, charging one just got quite a bit easier. Some 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the U.S. in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom ...more

The closing of a single U.K. fertilizer plant in 2022 squeezed supply of CO2, resulting in shortages of beer. (Hollie Adams/Bloomberg News) A 1.4 billion-liter tide of cheap U.S. biofuels threatens to wipe out both of the U.K.’s domestic ethanol producers, and could also disrupt a range of British industries from meatpacking to making beer. ...more

Ford Bronco Sport vehicles at a Ford dealership in Los Angeles. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg) Ford Motor Co. is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles to address a long-running issue over cracking in an auto part that can leak fuel into the engine and cause fires. The action applies to certain Bronco Sport and Escape models from 2020 to ...more