Nikki Budzinski secures $76,500 USDOT grant for Lincoln Land CC's CDL program, supporting veterans and tackling Illinois ...

Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) announced on Tuesday that federal dollars are headed to Lincoln Land Community College ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A shortage of truck drivers, which began years before the COVID-19 pandemic worsened it and revealed ...

The new younger-driver pilot program and other steps to address the truck driver shortage were a key topic during Robin Hutcheson’s nomination hearing on June 8 to be administrator of the Federal ...

Most of the items you buy get to you, in part, by trucks. Right now, many trucking companies are facing a driver shortage, which could make it harder for you to get what you need. “The demand for ...

The continued driver shortage is doing more than creating problems for trucking companies. In 2026, it is affecting how fast goods move, how much businesses pay to ship them, and how much consumers ...

A small logging contractor in upstate New York had a truck empty and needed someone with experience, and I needed a job. At that point I'd been trucking for nearly 20 years in four different countries ...

Patterson High School in California is introducing students to the possibility of a career in truck driving, an industry facing worker shortages impacting the nation's supply chain. David Dein, a CDL ...