A Texas truck driver was sentenced to years in federal prison after he was caught transporting more than two dozen people inside a tanker trailer. On July 1, 2025, San Antonio resident Richard Rindeikis, 44, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on one count of conspiracy to transport illegal ...more
China Hits Back With 34% Tariff on Imports of All US Goods
A worker loads rolls of steel plate at a steel market in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on March ...more
Carmakers Stop Plants, Ponder Prices as Trump’s Tariffs Hit
Vehicles bound for export in Ulsan, South Korea. (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News) Just hours after taking effect, President Donald Trump’s 25% ...more
Carmakers Freeze Prices, Offer Discounts
Hyundai pledged to hold prices steady until June 2. (Hyundai) Jeep maker Stellantis NV is offering fresh discounts across its ...more
The truck driver found speaking with a pregnant teen and her 40-year-old baby daddy at a Nebraska truck stop was ...more
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a final report on the probable cause of a fiery single commercial vehicle crash ...more
A crash involving three semi trucks, two loaded with steel, sent one motorist to the hospital on Thursday afternoon. The ...more
A serious wreck left a car crushed beneath a semi truck near Phoenix on Wednesday ...more
BlackRock Buys Panama Canal Ports
A containership passes through the Miraflores Locks as it transits the Panama Canal. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...more
Continental to Pass Along Tariff Costs to Customers
(Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg News) Continental AG will try to pass on the cost of tariffs imposed ...more
Aramco CEO Sees Strong Oil Demand Amid OPEC+ Output Revival
Amin Nasser by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg Global oil demand will hit a record this year ...more
Uber Teams With Waymo on Robotaxi Rides in Austin, Texas
Two Waymo driverless taxis stop before passing one another on a San Francisco street. (Terry ...more
China Slaps Extra Tariffs on Major US Farm Imports
Soft red winter wheat in a field in Kirkland, Ill. Imports of U.S.-grown chicken, wheat, ...more
Mexico Follows China and Canada With Retaliatory Tariffs
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. (Stephania Corpi/Bloomberg) MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said ...more
Idaho Launches I-90 Roadside Patrol to Assist Motorists
The IDT response truck will patrol Interstate 90, which is heavily traveled and experiences traffic ...more
November Tonnage Increases Year-Over-Year, but Declines From October
Truck tonnage inched up year-over-year in November, but for the second consecutive time declined on ...more
Trailer Connectivity Becoming More Intelligent
Orbcomm In his 47 years as a technician, Tony Morthland remembers a time when preventive ...more
Elon Musk Tells Investors He’ll Pause on Tesla Stock Sales
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he won’t sell any more shares in Tesla for 18 ...more
Diesel Price Drops 6¢ to $3.579 a Gallon
Diesel's previous price drop was 5.3 cents a gallon on the week of March 10. ...more
VIDEO: Truckers use dual-driver system to haul oversized load
A motorist captured video of an unusual oversize load haul with a second driver operating ...more
Truck driver wages rose 16% in the first quarter of 2025, according to one study ...more
Secretaries Granholm, Buttigieg to Headline 2023 TRB Conference
Biden administration Cabinet secretaries Pete Buttigieg and Jennifer Granholm are headlining this year’s annual meeting ...more
Canadian Carriers Cut Head Count Due to Tariff War
"About 80% of Canada-U.S. trade moves by Canadian trucks,” says Canadian Trucking Alliance CEO Stephen ...more