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Comedian Tracy Morgan Suing Walmart

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Tracy Morgan Update Comedian Tracy Morgan is suing Walmart over a deadly limo bus crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that left him critically injured....

Committees Offer Short-Term Solution For Highway Trust Fund

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Two powerful committees in Congress have signed off on separate but similar extensions that would prop up the Highway Trust Fund with $10.8 billion...

Fleet Safety Council’s Annual Educational Conference Includes Mock Trial

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Jodi Burness, president and lead paralegal of Burness Paralegal Services, will be bringing the drama of the courtroom – and the important lessons to...

Heavy Vehicle User Tax 2290 May Not Weigh Heavy for Truckers If Prepared To...

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The HVUT may not cost heavy as like the heavy motor vehicles if truckers and fleet-owners who need to pay tax form 2290 and...

Truckload Turnover Over 90 Percent For 9th Straight Quarter

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Turnover at large truckload carriers was up slightly to 92 percent in the first quarter, holding above 90 percent for the 9th straight quarter, American Trucking Associations reported today. Over-the-road...

Peterbilt And Paccar Win Awards For Manufacturing Leadership

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Peterbilt Motors Co. and its parent company, Paccar Inc., have received four Manufacturing Leadership Awards from Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council, taking top...

OOIDA Announces New Director Of Regulatory Affairs

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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has announced that longtime trucker and owner-operator Scott Grenerth has joined OOIDA as Director of Regulatory Affairs. Photo by: Nikohle...

L.A. And Long Beach Ports Begin Strike

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Drivers in a long-running labor dispute with three trucking companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began what they said would...

Hells Angels’ Trucking Companies Banking Big On Fuel

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Outlaw bikies have used trucking companies to defraud the federal government of millions of dollars in fuel rebates, according to an Australian Taxation Office investigation. But...

Carbon Express Pays Drivers More

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We've reported on a few different companies now paying their truck drivers more. We did a report earlier on Total Transportation and how the...