On the CDLLife App, real drivers share their real experiences—the good, the funny, and the helpful. This week: Meet Boomer! Boomer spent seven months at the Olathe, Kansas animal shelter before finding his forever home with a truck driver looking for a loyal companion. Thanks to his generous sponsor, Vickie ...more
Continental Demonstrates Tire Stress Testing Process
A Peterbilt Model 567 performs a wet-handling braking test at the ContiXperience event. (Connor D. Wolf/Transport Topics) UVALDE, Texas — ...more
EV Makers Racing for Supplies of Lithium for Batteries
Mountains and a liming facility are reflected in a brine evaporation pond at Albemarle Corp.'s Silver Peak lithium facility in ...more
Washington Truckers, Farmers Set Deadline for Exemption Compliance
Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau say the agricultural sector alone will be illegally overcharged $74 million due to ...more
Washington Truckers, Farmers Seek Exemption Compliance
Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau say the agricultural sector alone will be illegally overcharged $74 million due to ...more
Uber Freight: Empty Miles Likely Underreported
Uber Freight estimated that truck drivers could be wasting about 3.5 billion hours in total each year driving empty. (Uber ...more
Fleets Can Expect Long Timelines for Facility Connections
Ryan Wheeler says fleet electrification projects tend to be bigger than most utility connections. (Blake Franko, TMC) Facility electrification timelines ...more
Five More Indicted in Staged New Orleans Crashes
The new indictment brings to about 60 the number of individuals who have been charged, ...more
July Cargo Volumes Decline at Most Ports
Houston Ship Channel will be 700 feet wide and about 46.5 feet deep after an ...more
Composite Use Cuts International SuperTruck II Mass by 60%
Navistar’s SuperTruck II shed 500 pounds when compared with the Traton Group unit’s SuperTruck I. ...more
Saudi Arabia, Russia Plan to Extend Oil Cut Through Year-End
Crude oil storage tanks at the Juaymah Tank Farm in Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil ...more
UPS to Raise Average Prices by 5.9%
(Tim Boyle/Bloomberg) UPS Inc. will raise prices 5.9%, to take effect on Dec. 26. The ...more
FTR’s Starks: Trailer Production to Trend Lower Through 2024
The production line at a Stoughton facility. Starks said production of trailers in the U.S. ...more
A trucking company is facing nearly half a million dollars in fines for safety violations ...more
N.C. Reopens I-40 Section Closed Since September Hurricane
The reopened section of Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge in western North Carolina. ...more