Trucking Industry Safety News

SmartDrive is deploying its video-based safety program across Swift Transportation’s entire fleet, the company announced June 16.

Experts are warning that signs of improvement in the U.S. economy could give way to another round of contractions as coronavirus cases increase in certain states.

Insurance costs have been rising by double digits year-over-year, and with profit margins in the trucking industry averaging out at 5%, these cost increases are devastating. Learn from Hayden Cardiff, Founder/Co-CEO of Idelic, and Chris Vogel, Senior Vice President of Cottingham & Butler, Inc.,  as they discuss what insurance providers are really looking for.

A measure that would increase from $750,000 to $2 million the minimum liability insurance requirement for commercial motor vehicles was approved by a House panel and included in a recent highway funding bill.

U.S. safety officials will require all Boeing 737 Max airliners to be inspected for a manufacturing defect on engine coverings that they say could lead to loss of power during flights.

China wants international shippers of meat and soybeans to sign a document attesting their cargoes meet safety standards to ensure they aren’t contaminated with the novel coronavirus.

American Airlines Group Inc.’s pilots are calling on the U.S. government to pay for enough jetliner seats to enable social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

While evidence of a virus-sparked consumer pullback is largely anecdotal for now, it would be a setback for a U.S. economy that has just started to perk up, with retail sales jumping to a record in May.

Automated technology developers are shooting for the moon when they could instead be implementing ground-level initiatives in trucking, the founder of Starsky Robotics says.

In the past five years there were nearly 300 court cases resulting in jury verdicts over $1 million against trucking fleets, according to a new American Transportation Research Institute analysis made public on June 23.