The most viewed headlines from our Trucking Topic Page over the last year.
May 20 2025 // Driverless vehicle developer Aurora Innovation Inc. is putting a human back in front of the wheel of big rigs operating in Texas, reversing course less than three weeks after the company began commercial autonomous service...
Jun 4 2025 // The crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned it off the coast of Alaska after a fire broke out onboard, its operator Zodiac Maritime said on Wednesday.The 22 crew...
Apr 28 2025 // Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Jul 1 2025 // At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods to perform safety checks, narrating as they examine steering hoses for cracks and...
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...
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 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,...
Apr 29 2025 // Cargo theft across the U.S. and Canada continued to rise in 2024, with three states making up the bulk of losses, a new report shows.Multimodal hubs in California, Texas, as well as around Chicago, continue to be top...
Nov 3 2025 // Tort Reform, Safety Tech, Claims Control Seen as Best RoutesThe COVID-era boom in trucking is definitely over. The trucking sector is experiencing one of its most challenging times, with trucking operators’...
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...
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....
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 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...
Oct 24 2025 // The company behind a trucking navigation app has launched its own insurance agency.Earlier this month, Trucker Path announced the launch of its in-house, digitally enabled retail agency focused exclusively on trucking...
May 27 2025 // A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast.Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through...
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...
Jun 18 2025 // The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power.Shipping accounts for more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than Japan. The...
Nov 14 2025 // A grandfather and his young granddaughter. An electrician with two young children. A woman standing in line at a scrap metal business.They were among the 14 people who died in the fiery crash of a UPS plane in Louisville...
Nov 3 2025 // Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments, a growing campaign that could end up costing companies and consumers billions of dollars, according to new...
Jun 6 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group.Cargo theft reached an all-time high in 2024 – up 26% from 2023, with total reported losses of $455 million. The average estimated value per theft rose 7.7%...