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.

Leaders of some of the nation’s leading transportation companies and organizations recently came out squarely against the Trump administration’s plans to roll back fuel economy and vehicle emissions standards.

A late-March survey by CarrierLists found that the trucking industry was 91 percent compliant with federal Electronic Logging Device (ELD) requirements a week before the April 1 implementation deadline.