A Texas jury convicted a South Carolina woman on charges related to a tractor trailer human smuggling attempt. On July 15, 2025, a jury convicted 46 year old Sharon Thompkins of Columbia, South Carolina, for transporting illegal aliens, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.The ...more
Democratic Lawmakers Try to Delay Tesla’s Robotaxi Rollout
Elon Musk has made the robotaxi program a priority at Tesla, and a failure would likely be highly damaging to ...more
GXO Selects Supply Chain Veteran Patrick Kelleher as CEO
“I am excited to join GXO, a company at the forefront of the logistics industry,” Kelleher said. (GXO Logistics) GXO ...more
Pentagon Cancels Troubled $17.9B Military Moving Contract
(Ivan Cholakov/iStock/Getty Images) The Pentagon has terminated the multibillion-dollar Global Household Goods contract, a controversial program intended to replace a ...more
QXO Won’t Raise Its Offer for GMS After Home Depot Bid
(QXO Inc. via Facebook) QXO Inc. won’t raise its $5 billion offer for building products distributor GMS Inc. after Home ...more
This week, a Kansas Congressman introduced federal legislation that would require truck drivers to prove they can speak English before ...more
Interstate 40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina border will be closed for the next several weeks following a series of rockslides ...more
XPO Opens Its Largest Facility, Employing 450 in Pennsylvania
XPO operates the Carlisle service center LTL freight facility. (Dan Gleiter/pennlive.com/TNS) XPO Inc. has opened ...more
New Trucking Technology Raises Cybersecurity Risks
tsingha25/Getty Images The trucking and logistics sector is grappling with rising network complexity and risk ...more
A city official in Nashville, Tennessee, says she is looking for solutions after noting an ...more
A combative patient was run over by a semi truck after fleeing an ambulance in ...more
A trooper with the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) recently issued multiple out-of-service orders during a ...more
The Denton County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) released results from a multi-agency truck inspection effort that ...more
Canadian police say that brake failure was to blame for a recent semi truck rollover ...more
Police officers tracked down a trucker believed to be involved in the accidental death of ...more
Trucking Experts Prepare for Lackluster Peak Season
“The macro economy is not in a recession, but the freight market has been in ...more
Wabtec Denies Charges of Anticompetitive Behavior
Wabtec's fully electric FLXdrive locomotive. (Wabtec) Progress Rail, a division of Caterpillar Inc., has accused ...more
Senate, House Differ on FY24 Funding Bills
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) recently speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. "We are committed to ...more
Tariffs and Rising Costs Challenge US Factories
Producers may be hard-pressed to pass on higher costs should sales continue to weaken. (Emily ...more
A serious wreck left a car crushed beneath a semi truck near Phoenix on Wednesday ...more
Bot Auto Plans Driver-Out Autonomous Trucking Pilot in 2025
The company did not set a specific target date for its driverless launch but said ...more
Trump Might Defer Tariffs on Goods, Services Under USMCA
President Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick on Feb. 3. (Evan Vucci/AP) President Donald Trump is ...more
Samsara Expands Smart Trailer Capabilities
The company’s smart trailer features are enabled by the Samsara asset gateway device, which installs ...more