Transportation Compliance News

Brent crude traded 2.8% lower June 4 at $95.10 per barrel on hopes the U.S. and Iran will ultimately agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers.

A judge took the unusual step of personally responding to the Trump administration’s appeal of his order to refund $166 billion in tariffs.

Senior senators recently unveiled bipartisan legislation designed to repeal a World War I-era federal excise tax on new heavy-duty trucks, tractors and trailers.

Of the undocumented truckers arrested during the operation, 30 are from India and six are foreign nationals from El Salvador, Mexico and Russia.

A longtime advocate in Washington for trucking stakeholders, Gelb replaced Jed Mandel, who ended a quarter of a century as EMA president in September 2025.

CEO John Furner said that low-income consumers are experiencing greater pressure on high gas prices. “That’s really the stress point, is the price of fuel,” he said.

With oil refiners skewing their output toward diesel and jet fuel, they inevitably produce less of other petroleum products, including gasoline.

Rather than announcing an open challenge against Iran, the U.S. is quietly coordinating with shippers willing to take a different approach.

The letters come ahead of the scheduled July review of USMCA, which can either be subject to annual reviews going forward, or renewed for 16 years.

Iran’s oil exports were sharply curtailed in May as a U.S. Navy blockade prevented any crude shipments, leaving about 80 million barrels stranded offshore, a nonprofit reported.