Trucking

Houston-based Patriot Transit is a flatbed carrier serving customers on the Gulf Coast and in the southwestern U.S.

The total number of stops was down this year from 2020. Other violations besides HOS were fairly steady as a percentage of all citations

The last time demand was this high for new Class 8 trucks, fleets placed record orders. Not this time because manufacturing capacity is limited.

A trucker could face prosecution after U.S. border officers say they found nearly 70 pounds of cocaine in a trailer full of watermelons and peppers she was hauling to Canada.

Carriers have held back on physical plant investments. Now with volumes and profits escalating, CapEx levers may start to be pulled.

XPO Logistics said it will be closing a distribution center in San Antonio.

Cummins beat analysts’ Q2 estimates on the top and bottom lines as it looks into making its filtration business a stand-alone entity.

The latest guilty plea brings the total to 26, with four of them in just the past seven weeks.

The Texas-based flatbed and specialized carrier raises 2021 full-year guidance for revenue of up to $1.6 billion.

Confident that the indictment of founder Trevor Milton won’t lead to legal trouble, Nikola focuses on supply challenges.

The long time board member had been interim chief since early this year

14% of carriers polled said they don’t understand what a 3G sunset means for their fleets.

The increase in the benchmark comes even as commodity markets experience another Monday dip.

Diesel sales were up 21.2% from last year, but were less profitable on a per-gallon basis

A 3-judge panel was ready to rule on the carrier’s appeal, but a larger group of judges will now render an opinion.

A federal jury found former Roadrunner Transportation Systems CFO Peter R. Armbruster guilty on four counts of violating federal securities laws in a $245 million securities and accounting fraud scheme. It acquitted two former controllers of Roadrunner’s truckload division.

Market leader Daimler Truck expects to be its own entity by the end of the year after Daimler AG votes to create two companies.

The company’s earnings per share tripled the prior-year results due to strong demand, favorable comparisons with 2020’s second quarter.

Trucking fleets that still use pen and paper to meet their recordkeeping requirements are adding unnecessary costs and complexity, and upping the chance of a recordkeeping violation during an FMCSA audit.

“The fix wasn’t sitting on a shelf,” Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Clay Bright said about the Hernando de Soto Bridge repairs that started in mid-May.