OOIDA’s Indiana lawsuit is just the latest in a series of pending cases that contend the tolls are unconstitutional.

It will be another year before complete crash statistics are available, but researchers from three major universities have already released a study on the effects of the mandate.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure committee held a hearing in February called “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot Wait.”

The National Transportation Safety Board released this past February its biennial list of top priorities to improve transportation safety across all modes.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is waiting to learn how a bill to repeal the federal excise tax on commercial truck sales would affect small-business truckers before it takes a stance on the issue.

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have filed separate challenges against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s decision to pre-empt California’s meal and rest break laws.

Truckers who have concealed carry permits are well aware of the patchwork of state laws and lack of uniform reciprocity in accepting other states’ permits as equal. Bills in both the U.S. House and Senate seek to change that.

Legislators in multiple states are pursuing the elimination of speed limit differentials for cars and trucks, while legislation in a separate state would introduce differentials.

As much of the nation starts to emerge from winter, two northeastern state legislatures are looking at bills that cover concerns about snow and ice removal from atop cars and trucks.

The Federal Highway Administration recently sent a letter to the Oregon Department of Transportation regarding what the state needs to do to fulfill a request to toll portions of Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 in the Portland region.

In a blow to motorists wanting to get rid of speed cameras in Iowa, the state’s Supreme Court recently ruled that speed enforcement via cameras does not violate due process.

Massachusetts is missing out on nearly $27 million in unpaid tolls mostly from out-of-state motorists as a consequence of a lack of a reciprocity agreement with Connecticut.

Left-lane use is a constant area of focus from state to state. Legislators around the country continue to pursue changes to statute on the issue.

Since the first of the year, lawmakers throughout the country have been working at breakneck speed to advance their agendas.

The beginning of 2019 kicked off with a huge media campaign for new technology specifically for truck parking, establishing the parking theme for the first two months of the year.

When the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Board of Directors meet in April, they will be seating five new alternate board members.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association focused on the dangers and negative consequences that could result from fully autonomous vehicles.

Third Circuit ruled that the Federal Aviation Authorization Administration Act of 1994 does not pre-empt New Jersey law for determining whether a truck driver is an employee or independent contractor.

Calling the regulation “innovative” and “nondiscriminatory,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s low-carbon fuel standard.

Only this industry could take a booming economy, a supposed driver shortage, a lack of capacity, and not be able to take advantage of it

While reading this book, it seems natural for people associated with trucking to ponder correlations between the steamboat pilots of the 1800s and the trucking industry today.

Indiana residents, including OOIDA member Randy Nace, filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of allowing the Indiana Toll Road to lease to a foreign consortium.

The beginning of 2019 kicked off with a huge media campaign for new technology specifically for truck parking, establishing the parking theme for the first two months of the year.

Mark has always supported workers’ rights. Blue-collar industry experience from an early age taught him the importance of advocacy on the workers’ behalf.

The determination of an individual truck driver to see his case all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in many trucking companies no longer being able to use the Federal Arbitration Act to avoid a class action lawsuit.

Truckers scored a big win when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a driver in a case about independent contractors and arbitration.

If a driver calls the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and asks if he or she should enter a lease-purchase agreement, the answer is almost always the same.

You’ll often hear owner-operators say that “trucking is in my blood.” It’s something most relate to on a level far deeper than an occupation. For some, trucking truly is part of their heritage.

This can only be one thing: The Mid-America Trucking Show. The biggest truck show of the year will run March 28-30 at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville.

This articles gives all important imformation for trucks shows all the way through July 2019. Providing dates, locations and websites for your convenience.

Upon entering the vastly weird world of over-the-road trucking, I was immediately cautioned about accepting toothpicks from strangers.

Jon Osburn, skipper of OOIDA’s touring tractor-trailer, the Spirit of the American Trucker, says that the February issue of Land Line Magazine is one that every truck driver should get their hands on.

We have all heard the story from several months ago about the truck driver who followed his GPS into the woods and became totally lost in the great Northwest.

ROSES to a letter that appeared in the Pensacola News Journal not long ago, detailing an act of kindness involving a trucker. The letter came from Patricia Edmisten of Pensacola, Fla., and told how she was on a family trip near Naples when she witnessed a trucker stop his truck, get out and give a homeless man some money before shaking his hand and getting back in the truck.

It’s unnerving how little noise it makes. No vibration. You can stand next to it and hear nothing. Not even a hum.

Counterfeit parts have long been a problem in the U.S. and not just for big trucks but your personal vehicles as well.

Missy Cummings doesn’t recommend choosing commercial pilot as a career.
This might seem like a strange statement for a pilot to make.

The 12V JumpBooster JP30 jump-starter is designed specifically to jump-start heavy-duty diesel trucks. The compact device produces 3,000 peak cranking amps and is safe, efficient and easy to use.

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Brake problems arise when a shoe does not fully disengage after application. That causes continuing friction, causing the drum to heat above the tire rubber’s ignition point.

Some trucks get sold and change ownership several times, but today we have a story of 67-year-old Kenneth Dunlap and his stunning Freightliner that made it all the way back home to him.