An attempt to negotiate reforms to the truck driver hours-of-service rules appears to have failed
Read More →The Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike car hauling companies if new contract negotiations aren't agreed upon before the current contract runs out May 31
Read More →Illinois Gov. George Ryan's proposal for an ambitious $12 billion public works program would have relied heavily on money raised by doubling license plate fees for passenger cars. But opposition to the fee hike has lawmakers looking at other ways to fund the program, including raising truck license fees even further than the 15% proposed by Ryan
Read More →The trucking industry's biggest association is applauding a U.S. federal appeals court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency's setting of air pollution rules amounts to an "unconstitutional delegation of legislative power."
Read More →A bill that will let tractor-trailers travel the same speed as other vehicles in Texas has passed both houses of the state's Legislature
Read More →The Illinois Secretary of State wants to retest more truckers who may have gotten their commercial driver's licenses in a bribery scandal
Read More →The moving industry has a new tool to battle the black eye to its image delivered by so-called "rogue movers" - a certification program
Read More →As talk continues to grow, especially on the Internet, about a proposed truck shutdown scheduled for July 5, the country's largest organization of owner-operators and truck drivers has spoken out against the action
Read More →U.S. heavy truck sales for the first four months of the year were more than 27% higher than the same time last year, putting us well on the way to another record-breaking year
Read More →A coroner's inquest into the truck-train crash that killed 11 people in Bourbonnais, IL, in March ruled that the deaths were accidental. However, that doesn't prevent prosecutors from bringing charges against truck driver John Stokes
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