minnesota News Updates

To attract potential job seekers, the Minnesota Trucking Association Foundation has launched a  website and social media campaign showcasing many types of trucking industry careers.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation to crack down on catalytic converter theft in the state, the latest in a series of moves by state lawmakers to help residents combat what has become a nationwide problem.

A 90-year-old undivided two-lane freight corridor is getting a $10 million face-lift in a Minnesota agricultural belt where truckers, commuters and farmers cope with high crash rates and congestion.

With state fleet leaders’ annual trip to the U.S. Capitol disrupted due to COVID-related visitation limits, the Minnesota Trucking Association is instead inviting federal leaders to meet trucking executives on their home turf.

Minnesota is the latest state — and the first in the Midwest — to adopt California’s stricter tailpipe emission standards and mandate for automakers to get more zero-emission vehicles onto sales lots.

The Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee on July 14 voted in favor of amendments introducing gradual fines, to accompany a proposed ban on truck parking in the city.

The administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state regulators can adopt new vehicle emission standards without the OK from lawmakers, an administrative law judge ruled May 7.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation recently awarded $61 million for projects meant to improve the state’s freight transportation network.

Minnesota is making another attempt to gain reprieve from certain federal commercial driver license testing requirements, marking the continuation of a four-year effort for exemption.

A Minnesota tank truck driver is facing charges in a case where his truck entered a stretch of road that had not been closed to traffic amid a demonstration against Minneapolis police in the wake of the death of George Floyd.