The Senator for Colorado is concerned about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s ability to properly regulate the trucking industry with its current resources.  US Senator John Hickenlooper pressed for more scrutiny by the FMCSA in a letter to the […]

Indiana State Police (ISP) performed hundreds of traffic stops during a recent one day traffic blitz. The traffic enforcement blitz took place on August 30. Troopers with ISP’s Lowell Post and troopers assigned to the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division conducted […]

The smallest of a group of “superloads” will make it’s was through Ohio this weekend.  The seventeenth of nearly two dozen superloads will be transported from Adams County, Ohio to Licking County, Ohio beginning Friday, September 13th. The load is […]

A truck driver was found guilty on charges related to attempting to strike a law enforcement officer with his 18 wheeler in Pennsylvania last year. On September 10, 2024, Craig Robert Godrey was found guilty of felony Aggravated Assault by […]

Continental’s new EV compatible checkmark means that the tire meets the special requirements of EV/hybrid vehicles as well as those of combustion engines. Image: Continental Tire Continental will now have an EV compatible checkmark on some of their new truck […]

ZF has been developing power trailers in Europe for several years now and feels they could reduce both emissons and fuel consumption in long-haul trucking applications.  Photo: ZF In Part 1 of this series on The Rise of Powered Trailers, […]

A motorist’s left turn in front of an oncoming tractor trailer resulted in her death and the injury of her three daughters in Florida on Tuesday evening.  The accident happened on September 10th just before 5:30 p.m. in Dade City, […]

Dash cam video shows an unusual crash that involved a truck partially driving onto the trailer hauled by a pickup. The video was shared this week by TikTok user shawbrixks, who said, “This was my first accident & cant even […]

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Excessive waits to load or unload trucks is called driver detention. Image: HDT Graphic The total time lost to truck driver detention in for-hire trucking was more than 135 million hours in 2023. That’s among the findings in a new […]