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DOT Anthony Foxx Hopes For Long-Term Highway Bill

Highway Trust Fund Support With the Highway Trust Fund on the brink, Department of Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx, continues to support President Obama's $302 billion dollar plan to fund our nation's highways. Foxx has been...

ATA Disappointed With Obama’s Transportation Plan

Train And Rail More Important Then Trucking? As concerns and fear mounts due to the failure to agree on a long-term solution to the Highway Trust Fund, it appears that we're no closer to a...
paying for america's roads

Paying For America’s Roads? Toll Roads Or Fuel Tax Hike Survey

America's Roads There's been a long debate over the best method for paying for America's roads. Many Americans feel that toll roads are the best way to pay for highway repairs, others would rather see...
British Truck Drivers Kills Two On Bicycles

British Truck Driver To Serve More Then 8 Years Behind Bars

British Truck Driver Kills Two On Bicycles British truck driver Robert Wayne Palmer pleaded guilty to two counts of death by dangerous driving and another count of dangerous driving related to an accident that occurred...

Sysco Ends Planning To Merge With With US Foods

Sysco Corp. has terminated its planned merger with U.S. Foods after the Federal Trade Commission’s request for preliminary injunction to block the deal was granted. In February, the FTC filed an administrative complaint arguing that the...
ATA Management Conference And Exhibition 2015

2015 ATA Management Conference Exhibition October 17th-20th 2015

Registration has now begun for the 2015 ATA Management Conference Exhibition. This year's event will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center & Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA. From now until September 14th, you can...

Abbie Deloach Family Will Sue Trucking Company After Wrongful Death

Just days after the deadly accident which left five Georgia Southern students dead, one of their families is filing a lawsuit against the people they say are responsible. The five junior nursing students were hit...
Trucking Industry Market Value

The U.S. Economy And A Slowing Trucking Industry

The trucking industry has always been a strong indicator for the U.S. economy. When the trucking industry is strong, so is the economy. When the trucking industry struggles, the U.S. economy often follows. And...

DOT Index Near Record Highs

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 0.4 percent in April from March, increasing for the third consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’...

Comedian Tracy Morgan Suing Walmart

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. The complaint was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court...