Trucking News

Last night January 29 at 8 p.m. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued travel ban for all semi trucks on some of New York Highways. From Cuomo’s office: Beginning at 8 p.m. tonight, tractor trail...

Chicago and the Midwestern US will freeze today to unprecedented temperatures as the polar vortex tightens its grip on the Midwest!  Temperatures will drop to  -25° degrees with windchill approachi...

Many industry thought leaders refuse to buy into the prospect of truck drivers being displaced entirely; they contend that automation could never mature to a level where it could completely replace a ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has expanded its regional emergency declaration from Jan. 18 to now include 22 states ahead of a winter storm expected to impact much of the Eastern U...

Driver detention has been causing headaches and lost wages for years, but the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate has shone a spotlight on the issue like never before. For the first time, carriers...

Identical bills were introduced in the Virginia House and Senate that would establish tolls on I-81 through the state. Truckers would pay a maximum of $55.25 to cross the state in one direction. Follo...

Drivers and carriers can start taking steps now to ease any potential pain. It starts by identifying whether you have an AOBRD installed and whether you need to replace it with an ELD (some AOBRD devi...

For truck drivers with concealed carry permits, the bill would make it easier to determine which states would or would not honor their permits. A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this month would al...

The Trucking Law segment is a new monthly feature on Overdrive, in which we pose commonly asked questions from truckers and owner-operators to legal experts. In this installment, attorney Paul Taylor...