A box truck driver who lost control of their brakes was forced to use a truck arrestor along Teton Pass on Thursday, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT). According to WYDOT, a box truck traveling on WYO 22/Teton Pass lost its brakes on July 17, 2025.The box truck driver ...more
Use Cases for Truck Fleet Hybridization Begin to Emerge
Range Energy said its goal is to make the diesel tractor-trailer more efficient and cleaner. (Range Energy) Hybrid technologies that ...more
Duffy Extends Marine Highway 848 Miles, Spurs River Economies
The Cumberland River in Kentucky. (alexeys/Getty Images) Kentucky’s barge business will benefit since three of its rivers now rank among ...more
Port of Los Angeles Experiences Busiest June on Record
Containerships at the Port of Los Angeles. Overall volume for the first half of the year was about 5% above ...more
Lucid’s CEO Warns of Price Hikes Even for American-Made Cars
Workers assemble a Lucid electric vehicle in Newark, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) The head of Lucid Group warned that ...more
Trump Threatens Russia With 100% Tariffs Over Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (left) shakes hands with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office on ...more
Perspective: How to Combat Auto Transport Fraud
While most transactions in the movement of cars go smoothly, scams often lie in wait. From phishing attempts to double ...more
June Truck Orders Drop 36% From Last Year
A Mack truck in production at the company's Lehigh Valley, Pa., manufacturing plant. ACT's preliminary ...more
DOT Chief Sean Duffy Named Interim Administrator of NASA
Sean Duffy. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) President Donald Trump named Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as ...more
Trump Says 50% Levy on Copper Imports to Take Effect Aug. 1
Copper cathode sheets. (Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin levying a ...more
Musk Says Grok AI Is Coming to Tesla Vehicles by Next Week
The Grok chatbot logo on a smartphone. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence ...more
Trump’s 50% Copper Tariff Could Rattle US Supply Chains
As Trump prepares to slap a 50% levy on imported copper as of Aug. 1, ...more
Unilever Sells Venezuelan Ice Cream Unit to Mack de Venezuela
The financial details of the operation haven’t been disclosed, the firm added. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) Unilever ...more
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Flags Complacency on Tariff Threat
“Unfortunately, I think there is complacency in the markets,” Dimon said. (Patrick Bolger/Bloomberg) Markets are ...more
Transportation Panel Embraces ‘Back to Basics’ Highway Plan
Spending from the Highway Trust Fund has exceeded revenues since 2001, according to Transportation and ...more
Company Earnings Guidance Is Wrong About 70% of the Time
The study surveyed 357 CFOs, investor-relations professionals and other executives at public companies in 2021. ...more
DOT Pauses Planned Workforce Cuts Due to Litigation
(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News) The U.S. Department of Transportation said it’s pausing planned cuts to its ...more
Love’s issues scam warning involving EFS codes
Love’s Travel Stops has issued an alert to customers regarding a recent scam. Love’s sent ...more
US-China Trade Tensions Flare Again as Talks Stall
Beijing accused the U.S. of unilaterally introducing new discriminatory restrictions. (Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg) China accused the ...more
CVSA Inspectors Sideline 773 Vehicles
This year's results marked an improvement over 2022, when inspectors placed 13.3% of vehicles out ...more
A bill aimed at “curbing nuclear verdicts” in trucking accident lawsuits has died in the ...more
NHTSA to Require Automatic Emergency Braking on New Vehicles
A 2024 Honda Accord with automatic emergency braking is displayed at a dealership April 14 ...more
Diesel Prices Slip 2.8¢ to $3.855
National average diesel prices have fallen every week since a 1.8-cent increase April 17. (THEPALMER/Getty ...more