In The News

• Trucking must wait longer to get size-and-weight answers as DOT asks for more data

  By The Trucker News Services
  Posted Apr 19th 2016 11:49AM

  WASHINGTON — The trucking industry is going to have to wait a little longer to get a definitive answer from the federa...

• Houston area submerged; trucker drowned in cab

  By Michael Graczyk - The Associated Press
  Posted Apr 19th 2016 11:46AM

  HOUSTON — More than a foot of rain had fallen by Monday evening in parts of Houston, submerging scores of subdivisions...

• Fatal Truck-Involved Crashes Drop, But Injury Crashes Increase

  By David Cullen - TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Apr 19th 2016 10:58AM

  The number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes decreased by 5%, from 3,921 to 3,744, in 2014 vs. 2013, according t...

• Hours of service changes, driver pay reform could come before Congress soon, defense to both already begun

  By James Jaillet - eTrucker.com
  Posted Apr 19th 2016 10:50AM

  Both chambers of Congress are expected to begin work soon on federal appropriations bills for the 2017 fiscal year, and ...

• Browns owner Jimmy Haslam fighting deposition order in Pilot Flying J civil suit

  By The Associated Press
  Posted Apr 18th 2016 1:35PM

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is fighting a court order for him to testify in a civil lawsuit...