The U.S. Supreme Court, in the spotlight recently over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, is considering a potential landmark case involving the trucking industry, New Prime Inc. v Oliveira.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) denied a request from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) to be exempted from federal regulations requiring electronic logging devices on commercial trucks.

It’s a well-known fact that truck drivers, traditionally, do not have the healthiest of lifestyles.

Long hours behind the wheel, erratic sleep patterns and a steady diet of truck stop food led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to write that long-haul truck drivers face "a constellation of chronic disease risk factors."

A.M. Best has revised the outlook to positive from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR of “bbb” of National Independent Truckers Insurance Company, A RRG (NITIC) (Charleston, SC). The outlook of the FSR remains stable.

The Alliance for Driver Safety & Security, also known as the Trucking Alliance, is lobbying Congress to enact stricter drug testing rules for American truck drivers.