US: State of the Trucking Industry Report April 2017

With the White House’s release of an updated Unified Agenda of projected timelines for a bevy of new and in-progress regulations across the entire federal government, the trucking industry gained some insight about when to potentially expect numerous regulatory...

Jeremy Wolfe   Key takeaways The latest federal government regulatory agenda is live, outlining regulators' vague plans for upcoming rulemakings. Several rulemakings, including changes to CDL standards and roadside inspection reporting, are in the final rule...

Mark Schremmer Efforts to allow military veterans easy entry into the trucking industry aren’t new, but the current administration is making the recruitment a priority. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the creation of a “patriotic hiring campaign”...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $52.1 million after a motorcycle-truck crash, finding liability across a subcontracting chain. ByZach Barreto     A Los Angeles Superior Court jury’s $52.1 million verdict in Perrigo v. multiple trucking defendants...