The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) has announced the expansion of enforcement on overweight trucks using weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology. Starting on June 22, 2025, NYC DOT began issuing $650 violations to overweight Staten Island-bound trucks on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE). Overweight trucks are targeted using WIM technology, or ...more
Stellantis Eyes Cheaper Ram 1500 for US Comeback
Ram’s U.S. pickup sales, a major profit driver for the company, slid 16% last year. (Nic Antaya/Bloomberg News) Stellantis NV ...more
Torc Partners With Flex, Nvidia on Autonomous Trucks
Torc’s autonomous driving system equipped on a Freightliner Cascadia tractor at an industry show. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) Automated truck developer ...more
EU Seeks Talks With Trump Before Retaliatory Tariffs
The EU wants to make progress and engage with the U.S., Simon Harris said in a Bloomberg TV interview March ...more
How BYD’s Five-Minute EV Charging Stacks Up Against Rivals
A sign outside a BYD showroom in Budapest, Hungary. (Akos Stiller/Bloomberg News) BYD Co., a Chinese automaker, is turning heads ...more
Recently released court records show that the CEO who was allegedly murdered by his own driver owed the man a ...more
The Willkomm family announced the transfer of ownership of a Wisconsin truck stop to a large travel center chain. The ...more
Daimler Truck CFO Jochen Goetz Dies at 52
Goetz speaking last month at Daimler's Capital Market Day 2023 in Boston. (Joe Howard/Transport Topics) ...more
Yellow Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Yellow Corp. trucks navigate the YRC Freight terminal July 28 in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie ...more
Diesel Price Posts 11.2¢ Gain in Third Straight Increase
A truck takes on fuel in Missouri. The average cost of a gallon of diesel ...more
Kentucky Begins $30 Million Road Project at Owensboro Port
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (fifth from left) joined state officials in breaking ground on a ...more
Class Act: Success Follows North Carolina Champ Bills
Flanked by two state troopers, Michael Bills of FedEx Express displays his hardware for winning ...more
Tesla Replaces Zachary Kirkhorn as CFO
(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Tesla Inc. Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn stepped down after 13 ...more
Cruising police officer struck from behind by tractor trailer in work zone
A police officer was struck from behind by a tractor trailer while making the rounds ...more
The Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) 2025 has come and gone, and what an event it ...more
CEO: Federal Funding Cuts Set to Slow Spread of EV Chargers
A Volkswagen e-Golf charges at an electric vehicle charger in Escondido, Calif. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg News) ...more
North Carolina has formed a team to catch speeders
Look out, drivers. North Carolina Highway Patrol has formed a team of officers to catch ...more
Love’s Travel Stops announced the opening of a new truck stop in southeastern Ohio. On ...more
Truckers say the Montana roads “weren’t bad at all” through last night’s winter weather
Truckers say that the roads weren’t that bad in Montana last night, despite the winter ...more
Ocean Shipping Industry Optimistic Going Into IMO Meeting
A containership approaches the port of Santos in Brazil on April 1. (Andre Penner/AP) Governments ...more
Georgia, Nebraska Extend Trucking-Related Executive Orders
Earlier emergency orders have been extended in Georgia for supply chain and oversize permits and ...more
Continental to Offload ContiTech Industrial Unit
(Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Continental AG, one of Germany’s largest and most storied manufacturers, is returning to ...more