🔥 Dane Meadows, a tanker-truck driver, saved a Father’s Day gift he received from his young daughter from destruction after flames engulfed his wrecked vehicle.
The gift, a teddy bear, was saved by Meadows after his tractor-trailer’s tire blew and rammed his vehicle into a guardrail. The accident occurred on State Road 37 between Indianapolis and Mt. Vernon, Indiana.
Hurricane Helene is rapidly intensifying and is expected to make landfall in Florida on Thursday as a powerful Category 4 storm.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a significant case involving Douglas J. Horn, a commercial truck driver who lost his job after testing positive for drugs.
For those of us in the transportation and logistics industry, the recent tragic incident in Brenham, Texas, where a man drove a stolen 18-wheeler into a Department of Public Safety (DPS) office, serves as a stark reminder of the critical importance of security and mental health support in our field.
A trucking company in Minnesota went up in flames due to a significant fire ignited by a smoking semi truck on Tuesday afternoon.
Some Trump-supporting truckers are boycotting deliveries to New York City following the former president's $355 million fraud fine.
An Ohio trucking company owner confessed to wire fraud in a federal court for participating in a scam that cheated shippers, including Amazon and Bath & Body Works.
Salt Lake Trucking Group (SLTG) was found guilty of fraud charges following reports by Gephardt Daily that the company received $108 million from FedEx through deceptive practices over the past ten years.
Canadian authorities have taken action against two Vancouver-area trucking companies following accidents involving their vehicles.
A man trapped in his crashed pickup truck for days was rescued after two fishermen, Nivardo Delatorre and Mario Garcia, spotted the wreckage under an overpass near Portage, Indiana.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the actions of an improperly licensed truck driver were the probable cause of a fatal grade-crossing collision involving a Metra commuter train in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, in May 2022.
A 41-year-old truck driver, Gregory Jackson, has been charged with criminal negligent homicide in connection with the death of a 15-year-old Livingston ISD student who was struck and killed by an 18-wheeler as he was getting off a school bus.
A tragic accident occurred on an Ohio highway when a semi-truck rear-ended a charter bus carrying students from the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District, resulting in three fatalities and 15 injuries.
Early Tuesday morning, a series of at least five crashes occurred on Interstate 10 outside New Orleans, resulting in at least one fatality and eight injuries.
Authorities are searching for a man who drove through the gate of a nuclear power plant in South Carolina and allegedly attempted to hit security officers before fleeing.
On Monday, a series of crashes involving over 150 vehicles occurred on Interstate 55 in Louisiana's St. John the Baptist Parish, resulting in at least seven fatalities and more than 25 people being hospitalized with various injuries.
A coal train derailed over Interstate 25 in southern Colorado, killing the driver of a semi-truck.
Joel Morrow, a truck driver, transitioned from being a "quintessential outlaw" in the trucking industry to becoming one of the foremost efficiency experts, achieving impressive fuel efficiency.
The book "Breakthrough Supply Chains" offers a practical and rigorous methodology to build resilient and cost-competitive 21st-century supply chains for international business.
Yellow Corp., a prominent US trucking company with a history of nearly 100 years, has filed for bankruptcy, leading to the closure of its business and leaving 30,000 employees without jobs.
Two suspects were shot dead by Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers during a standoff and hostage situation in Vandalia, Ohio.
Paul Bashaw, a 65-year-old trucker with over 20 years of experience in Massachusetts, is retiring with a $1 million jackpot, won just three days after he gave notice to his boss.
MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics is offering a free online course titled "Humanitarian Logistics," led by Dr. Jarrod Goentzel, director of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab.
A recent survey by Truckers News and Commercial Carrier Journal found that many truck drivers have no plans to retire.
Oceanworks, a global marketplace for recycled plastic, leverages blockchain technology to verify the origin of products and track them through the supply chain.
June's Overdrive Online Trucker of the Month, Debbie Desiderato, shares her journey and insights in the trucking industry in an interview with Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole.
Interstate 95 in Philadelphia experienced a collapse after a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo caught fire, resulting in the closure of a significant section of the highway. A
A viral video has sparked outrage over predatory towing practices after a small fleet owner and an Instagram page admin were presented with a $6,000 bill for a 16-mile tow and impound.
A chain reaction crash along a 2-mile stretch of Illinois’ Interstate 55 left six people dead and almost 40 injured on May 1.
The newly released book, 'Trucker Kid' by Carol Gordon Ekster, is making waves in the industry.
Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm, tore through Florida and the southeastern U.S., leaving behind immense damage and claiming at least 44 lives.