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Canada is implementing a new database requiring registration by next year for people and companies transporting dangerous goods at a domestic site they own or operate.

A new Department of Transportation Inspector General report has concluded that DOT agencies face a number of challenges in 2024 to meet their ambitious safety goals.

WASHINGTON — Enhancing parking availability for truck drivers would improve safety on the nation’s roadways, a senior Iowa trucking executive recently told senators.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The U.S. announced a $553 million project Nov. 8 to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo.

DETROIT — GM's Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in October.

Wyoming transportation officials are deploying a new roadway messaging system to help truckers avoid dangerous blow-over crashes on interstates as winter's peak accident season nears.

Done correctly, driver coaching supports safer, more profitable routes. Transport Topics reports how Kriska leverages in-cab technology for driver  improvement and development. 

A study by a U.S. government financial consumer group has concluded that there is widespread risk for truckers being rushed into signing so-called predatory lease-purchase agreements.

Attorneys General from 13 states signed a letter to the DOT supporting a proposal to require railroads to make information about hazardous materials on trains available to emergency responders.

The national average diesel price fell 8.8 cents to settle at $4.366 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released Nov. 6.