The Idaho Department of Transportation Board voted to add nearly 30 more state highways to the list of roads that trucks pulling 53-foot trailers may travel without a special permit.

Technology has given dispatchers more tools to be efficient, but it hasn’t eliminated the heart-popping stress of the job.

Illinois lawmakers responded to dizzyingly high fuel prices by suspending the state’s 5% sales tax on diesel and gasoline for six months.

Diesel at the pump stood at $1.432 on June 26 — 0.9 cents higher than the previous week — as the national average continued its three-month hover around the $1.41-a-gallon mark.

Two annual fees that New Mexico imposes on trucking could disappear if a lawsuit filed by American Trucking Associations succeeds.

A bus company’s legal argument has forced the Oregon Department of Transportation to stop shutting down truckers who fail to pay the state’s weight-distance tax.

Agricultural haulers have a special connection to the freight they haul that is not shared by a truckload carrier moving boxes of underwear one day and computers the next.

A regional California air quality agency in the Los Angeles area has banned large government bus and trash truck contractors and public fleets from buying diesel trucks and buses, instead requiring them to acquire vehicles powered by natural gas.

Two annual fees that New Mexico imposes on trucking could disappear if a lawsuit filed by American Trucking Associations succeeds.

Federal agents leveled additional charges against Florida truck driving school employees who allegedly took bribes in exchange for commercial driver licenses and handed over to state officials the names of 1,000 additional truckers whose CDLs are suspected of being tainted by the scandal.