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The number of cargo thefts in the United States in 2016’s first quarter was up 8 percent, but the average value of the thefts was down 56 percent when compared to the first quarter in 2015, according to FreightWatch International’s quarterly report, released this week. FreightWatch recorded a total of 221 thefts in the quarter with […]

A regulation-driven capacity crisis will slam trucking sometime in mid-2017 to as late as 2018, John Larkin, managing director, Stifel Financial Corporation, told fleet executives 

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a transportation funding bill Thursday, May 19, that could change hours of service rules for truck operators, should the House also pass the bill and the president sign it. 

A California trucking company’s owners were held on $950,000 bail each for an alleged scheme to avoid higher insurance premiums and taxes by paying drivers cash and providing inaccurate employee information to state officials. 

Under a brief investment report titled “Shippers continue to bludgeon rates,†by trucking financial research group Stifel Transportation comes this gem: A large dry van carrier recently told the firm that 90 percent of its customers have asked the carrier for a rate reduction.  

As noted last week in CCJ reporting on the ongoing lawsuit brought against the DOT’s electronic logging device mandate, there’s a renegade effort of sorts under way by trucker William Trescott to intervene in the case, a measure he’s asked the Supreme Court to take up. 

KPRC2 is Houston has identified 65-year-old Marion Guy Williams as the former Knight Transportation employee that entered the company’s Katy, Texas, terminal with a shotgun and shot and killed Mike Dawid, Williams’ former supervisor according to the report. Two other Knight employees were injured by flying debris, and a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in […]

In-cab LED lighting is becoming standard across many OE lineups, but is still largely an option as you work your way to the front of the vehicle in most cases. 

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association says it expects the courts to rule by year’s end on whether or not to uphold a DOT rule to require truckers to use electronic logging devices to track hours of service.