All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 9 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is revamping its Compliance, Safety and Accountability system to consolidate violations, simplify...
Mar 28 2025 // The operator of an interstate trucking company who was convicted by a federal jury of making false statements to federal regulators about the company’s safety rating has been sentenced to 45 months in...
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
Mar 7 2025 // A truck driver who killed seven farmworkers when he crashed into a parked van on Interstate 5 in Oregon was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 50 years in prison.Marion County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Wren sentenced Lincoln...
Mar 4 2025 // The hazardous cargo and fuel on a ship that ran aground in Canada last month has been contained, according to the company that manages the vessel.MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. has also hired a salvage company and a marine...
Mar 2 2025 // A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport on Saturday after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky.The plane landed at Newark Liberty International...
Feb 26 2025 // Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls containers from the bustling ports around Los Angeles, began adding some of the country’s first...
Feb 25 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Specialty MGA UK.A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel Taps Johnson From Travelers as Senior U/W, Transport and LogisticsMarkel, the...
Jan 23 2025 // 2024 saw record-breaking cargo theft activity across the United States and Canada, with 3,625 reported incidents representing a 27% increase from 2023, according to global data analytics and technology provider CargoNet, a...
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday.The train derailed around 5 p.m....
Dec 23 2024 // Be on the lookout for Grinch-like characters hanging out at transportation hubs over the holidays.A CargoNet analysis of holiday-period theft data from the past five years shows a heightened risk during the Christmas and...
Dec 16 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on top trade partners China, Mexico and Canada would deal a blow to the $1.7 trillion U.S. transportation industry and worsen a nearly three-year trucking recession,...
Dec 10 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In this episode, Peter Matthews, SVP of Commercial Truck, and Jared Fritts, Loss Control Specialist, tackle the issue of Strategic Cargo Theft – what it is,...
Nov 26 2024 // A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed close to Vilnius Airport, killing a crew member and injuring three others, according to police.The Boeing 737-400, which took off from the eastern German city of...
Nov 25 2024 // The owner of a trucking company was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for lying to investigators after one of his trucks was accused of causing a crash that killed seven...
Nov 22 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Generali Global Corporate & Commercial.A summary of these new hires follows. Markel Taps AEGIS London’s Pressman as Senior...
Nov 5 2024 // WEBBERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A section of Interstate 96 in southeast Michigan remained closed Sunday after a semitruck crashed into more than a dozen vehicles overnight, killing 4 people and injuring 17 others, according to...
Oct 15 2024 // A Russian missile hit a fourth cargo ship in Ukraine this month, as the Kremlin ramps up its attacks on Kyiv’s trade infrastructure.A grain storage facility at Odesa port was attacked on Monday, killing one person...
Oct 2 2024 // Hub International Ltd. (HUB), the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced an exclusive referral and broker program partnership throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico with MAS Seguros, the largest trucking insurance...
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...