Safety

Amazon’s safety data shows a decline in its warehouse injury rate in 2023, marking an improvement for the second consecutive year, but critics disagree with how the company measures safety.

Longtime FedEx Freight driver Corey Mitchell earned a fourth trip to the National Truck Driving Championships by winning Louisiana's state truck driving championship. 

Texas Trucking Association has been helping firefighters get truck tires to battle wildfires that have burned more than 1 million acres in the rural Panhandle.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a tanker in the Red Sea early March 15 but the ship’s crew was unharmed, authorities said.

DENVER — In an effort to keep Interstate 70 open, no trucks will be allowed on a portion from Eagle/Vail to Morrison until noon March 15.

NEW ORLEANS — A senior official at a federal agency offered to help carriers submit their comments, questions and quandaries related to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s work on potentially rewriting regulations for trailer underride guards.

WASHINGTON ­— The country’s top trucking regulator would receive nearly $1 billion under a fiscal 2025 budget request the White House recently delivered to Congress.

Amid a nationwide security crackdown, the U.S. Postal Service has made changes to its collection boxes, adding electronic locking mechanisms that make it harder to access mail receptacles.

Legislation meant to assist with the country’s response to the fentanyl addiction crisis was recently approved by Congress, a move celebrated by American Trucking Associations.

A five-year update of federal pipeline safety operations was recently approved by a subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives.