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Regional planners should balance the interests of freight haulers and local residents as they consider transportation needs, according to experts.

COVID-19 is about to put the global trading system through its most dramatic stress test since World War II, with supply lines for essential food and medical goods entering a critical phase as the pandemic peaks in the U.S. and Europe.

As COVID-19 crunches car sales globally, a backlog of orders has helped electric vehicles maintain momentum in much of the world — better than gas-powered cars and trucks.

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration medical advisory board is planning to discuss possible changes to the agency’s strict requirement for truck drivers with a history of seizures to be granted special exemptions before getting behind the wheel.

The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported April 16.

The coronavirus is set to further damage trade in the coming months, threatening supply chains and causing oil inventories to swell, according to the head of Europe’s largest port, Rotterdam.

Paccar Inc. on April 6 issued a recall notice covering hundreds of thousands of trucks over concerns a blown fuse could prevent dashboard illumination.

Oil plunged to the lowest in two decades amid a record collapse in U.S. fuel demand and the biggest-ever weekly build in domestic crude supplies.

Trucking companies are diligently working with the federal government in an effort to defeat the coronavirus.

The U.S. gross domestic product will decline by more than 20% on an annualized basis in the second quarter as a result of the coronavirus and the economic shutdown, American Trucking Associations’ chief economist forecasts.