Truckers are the latest group to hit back at the federal Australian Labor government after it raised a bevy of new taxes to offset welfare and net-zero spending in its latest budget. From July 1, the federal government will increase the Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge to six percent each year, according to a communique…

A trucker framed for murder breaks out of jail, takes a young woman hostage, and enters her sports car in a cross-border road race hoping to get to Mexico before the police catch him. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save”…

Gas prices are dropping. The White House says we could see more gas stations going below 4-dollars per gallon in the coming weeks. Truck drivers slow traffic at the Oakland seaport this week while protesting a California law. They say the rule makes it more difficult for independent contractors to work. A Florida jury will…

The food crisis, pandemic outbreaks, stagflation, a Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and potential nuclear war. This historian warns of the ‘perfect storm’ ahead, yet there are two things you can do to thrive despite it all – and they go beyond stockpiling food, water and guns. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Adam Tooze, a financial crisis historian and…

The lawyer for the former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash hopes he will get a chance to argue against his client’s possible deportation before the Federal Court of Canada. The Canada Border Services Agency recommended in March that Jaskirat Singh Sidhu be handed over to the Immigration and Refugee Board…

Members of The People’s Convoy trucker group that has protested against COVID-19 rules filed a lawsuit against officials in Washington, D.C., for what they said was a violation of their First Amendment rights. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), they wrote in the suit, erected blockades to prevent them from entering the city. Sixteen members and…

UK lorry driver Stuart Harvey has a penchant for solitude. Raised in a trucker family, he believes he was born for the road. Hailing from Hoddesdon, north of London, the heavy hauler’s grandfather used to ship Army tanks and other equipment hundreds of miles across the island. But, his passion for trucking also stems from…

Lawyers for a proposed class-action lawsuit against the convoy protest in Ottawa argued in court Wednesday that GiveSendGo may be in breach of a freezing order on funds raised for the convoy on the website. Monique Jilesen, a lawyer representing the proposed class and who obtained an injunction that froze convoy funds, said the order…

A former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has lost a first step in his effort to stay in Canada. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu tried to make the case to the Canada Border Services Agency to stay in the country after serving his prison sentence. His lawyer, Michael Greene, says that the…