Truck safety groups and the Teamsters claimed in federal appeals court that the FMCSA weakened its regulations in 2020 regarding truck driver work hours.
Federal ruling on rear impact guard inspections on truck trailers sparks debate over costly new safety equipment.
Long-term supply chain challenges could minimize the value of driver pay increases.
A top Biden administration official believes securing data among supply chain competitors will be the key to rolling out a nationwide 24/7 strategy.
Owner-operators are warning the FMCSA that shortages at drug-testing clinics are threatening truck driver livelihoods.
Former government safety officials now have investments and profits to keep in mind as they help their companies chart a course for autonomous vehicles.
The lack of federal grant money for truck parking again frustrates small-business truckers.
Owner-operators see a downside to keeping FMCSA’s emergency hours-of-service order in place.
In this AskWaves, we look at the potential for a driver wage boost if a critical exemption in federal labor law were lifted.
U.S. House passes the five-year surface transportation reauthorization that boosts truck insurance requirements and mandates automatic braking on new trucks.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the California Trucking Association’s request to rehear the decision that lifted the injunction against California’s independent contractor law.
Lack of standards among truck-parking notification systems puts long-haul truckers at a disadvantage, according to new research.
Republicans deride “restrictive” policies that were retained from last year in the Democrats’ latest version of the surface transportation reauthorization bill.
Bipartisan legislation would limit truck speeds to no more than 70 mph.
Independent truck dispatchers are pushing back on potential regulatory changes that could restrict their services.
The Senate bill introduced requiring automatic brakes would apply to new trucks starting two years after the final rule.
How not-in-my-backyard activists delayed efforts to invest in trucking on a Tennessee interstate.
The Department of Energy’s SuperTruck 3 earmarks $100 million to expand electric heavy-duty truck concepts to lower emissions.
The trucking industry sees the costs — but not so much the benefits — of new congestion pricing initiatives.
