Author Clarissa Hawes

A Republican congressman from California introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal a 12 percent federal excise tax on heavy trucks originally designed to help pay the cost of fighting World War I a century ago.

Truckers protested labor practices at L.A. and Long Beach ports, claiming they are misclassified as independent contractors and denied employee benefits.

Daimler Vans USA is recalling nearly 1,260 2016 Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Sprinter 2500 and 3500 vehicles over a tire pressure mislabeling problem that could result in improper inflation, increasing the risk of a crash.

The U.S. Army tapped Navistar Defense to build 115 International 7000-MV Medium Tactical Vehicles, or MTV, headed to Iraq, worth an estimated $18.8 million.

The Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch bid my a major truck driver association to overturn a federal mandate on electronic logging devices that track how many hours truckers drive.

Following multiple delays, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will proceed with its final rule that establishes minimum training rules for new truck drivers.

Old Dominion Freight Line CEO David Congdon says the trucking industry will see continued consolidation as large carriers gobble up smaller firms and independent truckers leave the business.

In a last-ditch effort to overturn a federal mandate on electronic logging devices, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has taken its fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Several California trucking companies and a conservative think tank are petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

Truckers are intrigued by the launch of Uber Freight, but they want a lot more details about pricing and how the cloud-based, on-demand, full truck-load freight brokerage will work before signing up.