All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2024 // The Pioneer tanker, sanctioned by the United States over its links to Russia-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), has passed through the Suez Canal with an LNG cargo, LSEG data showed on Monday.The source of the LNG and...
Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...
Sep 30 2024 // The world’s top container carrier is urging customers to move US cargo through East and Gulf Coast ports before the planned start on Tuesday of a dockworker strike that threatens to paralyze as much as half the...
Sep 13 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits.It was just two...
Sep 9 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In 2019, a woman died after a semi-truck hauling avocados swerved and struck a parked vehicle, attempting to avoid a road rage incident. The deceased woman...
Aug 30 2024 // A crash that killed three passengers on a party bus on a Virginia highway was caused by a fatigued truck driver working for a company that allowed its drivers to log excessive hours, a federal report concluded...
Aug 28 2024 // Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing...
Aug 27 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a warning about a sophisticated phishing scam targeting motor carriers. Fraudulent emails,...
Aug 22 2024 // Canada’s two main freight rail companies locked out around 10,000 of their Canadian unionized workers early on Thursday, starting an unprecedented simultaneous work stoppage that will grind almost all railway freight...
Aug 16 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia.Trucordia Transportation Practice Leader, Tim Good, is joined by Erika Wilson, Producer at Good’s Insurance, a Trucordia company, to discuss the FMCSA Drug and...
Aug 16 2024 // Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally...
Aug 16 2024 // An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists.Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield,...
Aug 13 2024 // Thai authorities are racing to stop about 100 shipping containers allegedly filled with hazardous industrial waste from Albania reaching the nation’s ports.Basel Action Network, a US-based nonprofit that tracks toxic...
Aug 12 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia.Trucordia Transportation Practice Leader, Todd Lykke is joined by special guests, Tiana Schowe, chief operating officer for meshVI, and Rob Moseley, an attorney who...
Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...
Jul 30 2024 // South Africa dispatched crews to contain an oil spill from a cargo vessel that ran aground earlier this month because of extreme weather conditions.Strong waves eroded the hull of the 125-meter (410-foot) MV Ultra Galaxy,...
Jul 25 2024 // NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A freight locomotive ran off the end of its track and smashed into the side of a garage Monday at a home in the city of Niagara Falls.No one was injured, but the impact flattened the brick...
Jul 24 2024 // The wife of a former San Antonio trucking magnate was sentenced this month in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme.Frances Hall, former co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking, was sentenced for her role in a scheme to avoid $9...
Jul 19 2024 // A Singaporean-flagged cargo vessel was hit by Yemen’s Houthi missiles in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, forcing it to return to its last port of call to assess the damage.Iran-aligned Houthis launched ballistic missiles...
Jul 15 2024 // A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists won’t be eligible to get his license back for another two years, New Hampshire safety officials said.A jury in 2022 found...