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Roughly 1,500 unqualified truckers have been taken off the roads after not meeting the basic standards for English language proficiency.

A migrant semi-truck driver was arrested and charged with five counts of manslaughter after reportedly falling asleep behind the wheel.

The state of Florida has busted a group, including Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) workers, who were selling driver’s licenses to illegal aliens for cash.

U.S. trucking companies are undermined by lower-wage Mexican truckers who use B-1 visitor visas to snatch delivery contracts from American truckers after they deliver a load from Mexico, says a May 8 article on the FreightWaves.com website.

A migrant truck driver who was involved in a massive Texas highway crash that killed five people — including a young child and a baby — has had his $1.2 million bond slashed to a mere $7,000.

Some foreign truckers are reportedly quitting the industry because President Donald Trump directed deputies Monday to restart the English-language proficiency tests for foreign drivers.

Truckers are celebrating President Donald Trump’s decision to restore enforcement of a rule that excludes foreign truckers from the roads if they cannot read English-language signs and instructions.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday that ensures truckers are adept at speaking English, America’s official language, Breitbart News can reveal.

An H-E-B truck driver in Texas is being congratulated for reaching a major milestone in his career.

There are likely hundreds of thousands of improperly vetted truck drivers on U.S. highways who were brought in on Employment Authorization Documents.

American truckers are having to compete with foreigners, Shannon Everett, cofounder of American Truckers United, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

A highway disaster in Texas has exposed the growing number of dangerous foreign truck drivers on U.S. roads, and advocates are hoping a legislative debate in Arkansas will jump-start federal changes to loopholed trucking regulations.

Small business owners in the trucking industry are “concerned about Kamala Harris’ impact” regarding increased regulations and costs, a major Chicago-based trucking company executive said.

Bolivian truckers and local transport organizations called for an indefinite strike of heavy transport next week against the government of socialist President Luis Arce and ongoing shortages of diesel fuel and foreign currency.

Truckers in Bolivia carried out a two-day blockade of some of the country’s key roads to protest against the government of socialist President Luis Arce over ongoing shortages of diesel fuel and foreign currency, which have severely affected the truckers’ ability to continue their labor.

“Tens of thousands” of fully autonomous tractor-trailers are expected to haul freight on public roads in upcoming years.

Some Trump-supporting truckers are refusing to transport loads to and from New York City after the former president was fined $355 million and had his ability to run businesses in the state suspended in Friday’s civil fraud verdict.

A cadre of Palestinian American truckers drove through the Chicago suburbs on Christmas waving the famous green, red, black, and white flags.

A group of Dutch truckers have argued that London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office issed thousands of ULEZ green car tax fines unlawfully.

A trucker with a big heart knew exactly what to do when he found a man needing help in Polk County, Tennessee, on July 26.

Major road closed Monday after a flyover smash saw an articulated lorry very nearly over the edge, with debris on the busy road below. 

Firefighters in Georgia knew exactly how to rescue a dog who found herself in a dangerous situation.

Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre has denounced German MEP Christine Anderson, who became famous last year for confronting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as “vile” and “racist” and not welcome in Canada.

Arizona authorities closed a portion of a freeway and issued a shelter-in-place order in the surrounding areas after a commercial truck tanker rolled over on the freeway and spilled nitric acid on Tuesday. 

The government of South Korea reportedly sent thousands of police officers to descend on the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a coalition of labor organizations, on Wednesday in an extensive national security raid union officials said was ongoing as of Thursday.

As the world entered its second year of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and a new era of high fuel prices and inflation, the world’s most essential cargo transport professionals – truckers – took the lead in organizing anti-government protests in nearly every region of the planet.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which represents the interest of unionized workers in a variety of fields in South Korea, is planning a nationwide strike for Tuesday in solidarity with an ongoing truckers’ strike the ruling conservative political party has denounced as unpatriotic.

South Korea’s trucker crisis came to a head on Tuesday when the government ordered striking truckers to return to work, even though the truckers say that no deal to address their grievances has been reached.

President Joe Biden and others in his administration allegedly pressured Justin Trudeau to shut down the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests.

Truckers supporting conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and their allies are currently maintaining 178 roadblocks nationwide, the nation’s transit police announced on Wednesday morning, protesting the election of leftist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential election.

Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro counted truckers among his most fervent supporters in Sunday’s presidential election.

The Port of Oakland was shut down for the third day in a row on Thursday as truckers continued to protest a California gig worker labor law that could impact an estimated 70,000 truckers.

A convoy of truckers protesting the California’s “gig economy” law, AB 5, caused a large traffic jam on Wednesday at the crucial Long Beach-Los Angeles port facility, which has been the bottleneck in national supply chains in recent months.

Friday marked the fourth day of a growing strike by South Korean truckers, who are protesting over their wages and the rising cost of fuel.

The cost for diesel fuel — used by farmers and truckers to supply Americans with products they need — is up 75 percent from last year. 

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has warned Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) of rising levels of “anti-government” and “anti-authority” sentiment since the onset of the Wuhan virus pandemic.