The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week enforcement effort is officially in the books, but the next major trucker blitz is already right around the corner. From August 24 — 30, 2025, law enforcement agencies across North America will partner for CVSA’s Brake Safety Week inspection campaign. ...more
PepsiCo Overcomes Lagging US Sales in Strong Q2
(Ted Shaffrey/AP/File) PepsiCo reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue in the second quarter despite sluggish North American sales. Sales of Frito-Lay ...more
Truck Parking, Multimodal Projects Among $488M in DOT Grants
“We will continue to move quickly to get money out the door to get dirt moving,” Duffy said. (photovs/Getty Images) ...more
Uber Partners With Lucid, Nuro to Launch Robotaxis in 2026
Uber announced it will purchase and operate Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted with Nuro Driver technology on its ride-sharing network. (Lucid ...more
Volvo Earnings Beat Estimates on Firmer Europe Market
(Eric Thayer/Bloomberg) Volvo AB reported better-than expected second-quarter earnings as signs of a recovery in Europe helped offset weak demand ...more
Volvo Q2 Profit Halves on US Truck, Battery-Electric Weakness
Volvo Trucks North America sales dived 43% year over year to 4,988 trucks from 8,779 in Q2 2024. But sales ...more
Walmart Eliminates Hundreds of Store-Support, Training Jobs
A Walmart store in American Canyon, Calif. The staffing cuts represent a continued effort by Walmart to make its large ...more
Waymo Expands in Austin After Tesla Launches Robotaxi
A Waymo autonomous taxi and a Tesla vehicle for robotaxi testing purposes in Austin, on ...more
A national trucking company has agreed to pay more than $900,000 to settle claims that ...more
A $90 million verdict awarded to a family injured in a crash with a Werner ...more
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently called out a commercial vehicle driver for “less-than-stellar decision-making” ...more
West Virginia officials announced that expanded truck parking is coming to three state facilities through ...more
The Idaho State Police (ISP) is asking motorists to drive with more caution around loaded ...more
A complicated crash cleanup in an Ohio construction zone left drivers stranded on Interstate 71 ...more
Northbound I-5 was shut down for about eight hours after a semi truck overturned and ...more
Saddle Creek to Expand 3PL Operations in Four States
Saddle Creek Logistics Services Saddle Creek Logistics Services plans to expand its warehousing and fulfillment ...more
Export Controls Now on the Table in China Trade Talks
A containership leaves the Port of Newark in Elizabeth, N.J. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) Trade talks between ...more
Concrete truck overturn strikes tractor trailer, car
A concrete truck overturned and struck two other vehicles in South Carolina on Thursday. The ...more
Senate Makes Commercial Transportation Policies a Priority
(Matt Rourke/AP) WASHINGTON — Committees in the Republican-led Senate recently took aim at commercial transportation ...more
Cummins, Government Lab Develop Enhanced Steel Alloy
High-temperature steel alloy in production. A 10% reduction in vehicle weight can result in a ...more
UK’s Starmer, Trump Agree to Implement Tariff-Cutting Deal
For U.K. leader Keir Starmer, completion of a deal sheltering key industries from more aggressive ...more
I-95 collapse will “add significant cost” to the trucking industry, says ATA
The collapse of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is expected to have far reaching consequences on ...more