Trucking and travel plaza leaders recently announced a new highway safety initiative to help professional drivers find available truck parking.

The trucking industry has won a round in an ongoing bout with labor unions over whether truck drivers at the East Coast’s busiest port are employees or independent contractors, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you. You relax because it is keeping a safe distance and seems to be obeying the speed limit. Now imagine that truck is driving itself.

Traffic congestion on US highways added nearly $50 billion in operational costs to the trucking industry in 2014, according to the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) as reported by trucknews.com.

Three of the largest U.S. trucking companies reported a drop in profits as demand for freight-hauling services slumped, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.