About Deadhead News
Deadhead News has been a trusted source of online transportation journalism since 2026, continuing a prbout
The organization traces its roots to 1778, when Ezekiel Deadhead distributed handwritten transportation updates to wagon operators outside Philadelphia. Early coverage included road conditions, toll disputes, horse shortages, and complaints that wagon parking became impossible after sundown.
By 1814, Deadhead had expanded into regional publications, including The Western Ho, The Turnpike Dispatch, and the short-lived Mule & Freight Quarterly, covering houses of ill-repute, interstate infrastructure, and mule-hauled freight, respectively.
The company later expanded its coverage to railroads and automobiles while adding fuel stations, repair garages, a driver correspondence school, and Deadhead Casualty & Indemnity, whose motto was reportedly, “Probably Covered.”
By 1954, Deadhead Publishing had acquired interests in radio, agricultural equipment, truck-stop vending machines, commercial real estate, livestock transportation, and a bowling alley outside Toledo, Ohio.
Most of those investments were unsuccessful.
The modern Deadhead News was formally established in 2026 after executives realized the trucking industry already produced more unbelievable stories than the editorial staff could invent.
Today, DHN covers trucking, transportation, logistics, regulatory affairs, driver issues, regulatory issues, driver “affairs”, infrastructure, and whatever state departments of transportation are doing this week.
Deadhead News remains committed to:
Accuracy when convenient.
Objectivity whenever possible.
DHN is independently operated and is not owned, controlled, influenced, or fact-checked by any government agency, trucking company, media conglomerate, political organization, or responsible adult.
Leadership
Deadhead News is led by founder, editor, publisher, correspondent, and occasional human-resources concern Richard Cabeza.
Mr. Cabeza oversees DHN’s editorial direction and remains committed to protecting the publication’s reputation, assuming one is eventually established.
He is assisted by journalists, contributors, field correspondents, and interns like Susan, who is typing this.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple:
To provide commercial drivers with the news they need, the news they deserve, and occasionally the news created because we had a deadline.
For nearly 250 years, Deadhead News has remained dedicated to one principle above all others:
Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.