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Robert Primus, the Democrat ousted from the federal board that referees America’s freight railroads, has sued to get his job back — and the timing could ripple through trucking. In a complaint filed October 1 in U.S. District Court in…
America’s ports are operating today even as a federal funding lapse triggered a government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. ET on October 1. The key takeaway for drayage and over-the-road carriers: freight can still be cleared and moved, but cargoes that…
U.S. import flows of lumber, timber and wood furniture are about to change course. A presidential proclamation issued September 29 imposes a 10% tariff on softwood timber and lumber and a 25% tariff on upholstered wooden furniture, kitchen cabinets and…
Wyoming currently sits atop a new ranking of states with the highest per‑capita death rates in crashes involving large trucks, underscoring the hazards of long rural stretches, volatile weather and work‑zone chokepoints across I‑80. The analysis, drawn from federal data…
Truck drivers using a federal listening forum delivered a simple message: improve compensation and working conditions before asking for longer days. That sentiment lands just as regulators moved in the opposite direction on workforce size, unveiling emergency restrictions on who…
On Monday, September 29, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to finally step into the long‑running fight over freight-broker negligence, a flashpoint that has split federal appeals courts and left brokers, carriers and shippers navigating different rules depending on…
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday, September 26, issued an emergency interim final rule sharply tightening who can obtain or renew a non-domiciled commercial driver’s license, citing a nationwide audit and a spate of fatal crashes involving foreign-domiciled drivers.…
Joplin, Mo. — The message rolling out of this weekend’s Guilty By Association Truck Show was blunt: if federal regulators want to make trucking safer and more sustainable, start by valuing drivers’ time. In a listening session captured by FreightWaves,…
As federal regulators weigh new ways to carve more “flexibility” into hours-of-service, the message from the driver’s seat is getting sharper: the real safety and retention lever is compensation, not squeezing extra productivity out of the 14-hour clock. That sentiment…
A federal appeals court on September 25 reversed a lower-court win for P.A.M. Transport, sending two former Nashville-based drivers’ hostile work environment claims back for trial and signaling that supervisors’ use of “monkey” and related slurs can, on its own…
