The stage is set for a political grilling of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration at a House hearing Thursday on the hours-of-service rule. Amid...

Ford Motor Co. and Navistar International announced today that they intend to form a joint venture to build medium-duty commercial trucks. The 50/50 joint...

Insurance rates have come down over the past three years, and we can expect the market to stay soft into 2011, said Todd Reiser, vice president of the...

FedEx Corp. continued to see an improvement in its performance during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, posting net income of $419 million, or $1.33 a share

MHC Kenworth Colorado was named 2010 Kenworth Dealer of the Year for the United States and Canada at the annual Kenworth Dealer Meeting held recently at the...

The manufacturers of the UltraRide Chassis Air Suspension, for light and medium-duty truck markets, now introduce Cabmate for medium-duty trucks

It’s all over for DriverNet. The Kansas City-based company has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy, less than two months after it filed for bankruptcy protection

SCHAUMBURG, IL -- The annual Fleet Safety Conference kicked off Tuesday with an opening keynote address by Mike Pitcher, president and CEO of LeasePlan USA,...

Significant job losses will be directly attributable to California Air Resources Board's fuel policies, says a new study by the California Trucking...

TMW Systems will hold its TransForum 2009 User Conference and Exhibition Sept. 20-23 in Nashville

Truckers around the country -- including in the nation's capital -- gathered to protest the upcoming ELD mandate, which goes into effect Dec. 18.

Business and trucking interests are criticizing a union-backed labor bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Among other things, the bill would...

The trucking company New England Motor Freight has agreed to pay $870,500 to settle a federal class action lawsuit that it failed to get proper...

If you’re using automatic onboard recording devices to track driver hours of service under the grandfather clause of the electronic logging device mandate,...

Women In Trucking, an active group formed to find opportunities to promote the accomplishments of women in the trucking industry, will be holding...

Truckload carriers nationwide have greater confidence that business will improve in the year ahead, with 70 percent expecting volumes to increase in the...

Turnover for longhaul truck drivers increased in the first three months of 2011, according to American Trucking Associations' latest Trucking Activity Report

The House and Senate have chosen their conferees for negotiations on the highway bill. They have until June 30 to work out a deal or pass another...

Proposed fuel economy standards could result in a $57 billion drop in tax revenue that goes to federal transportation funds, says the Congressional Budget...

The Society of Plastics Engineers recently recognized the bright film material embodied in Hendrickson Aero Bright products with an environmental...

A case now before the U.S. Supreme Court could determine whether or not the courts can overrule labor arbitration awards when public safety may be at stake

A federal rule regulating driver detention may be shelved for the foreseeable future.

Prime Inc., Springfield, Mo., has introduced a new compensation structure for all current and future refrigerated division company drivers

Temperature control system maker Thermo King Corp., Minneapolis, has launched a redesigned corporate web site at www.thermoking.com

K.L. Harring Transportation has announced a driver pay raise that increases the base pay rate for team drivers to 70 cents per mile.

Ryder System Inc., Miami, Fla., has added a new Carrier Portal to RyderTrac, a Web-based solutio

A trio of Democratic Senators introduced legislation that would give freight a seat at the national transportation policy table

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced that the 2005 North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria is now available

Western Star Trucks announced the addition of 11 new locations to its dealer network

Maverick Transportation took home several individual and team awards at the Arkansas Trucking Championships last week in Springdale, Ark

The Women In Trucking Association and Navistar Inc. have created an annual award to honor the trucking industry's most influential woman

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will host a public hearing in Washington, D.C., next week to get reaction to its proposed mandate for...

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency has been awarded a project to study and understand how technology adoption works to improve freight...

National Tire Safety Week is more for consumers and passenger car drivers, but given tires' third-place ranking in trucking fleets' operating costs, we...

The Peterbilt dealer network recently added two new full-service dealerships and expanded an existing location

Production has begun on the Reach lightweight, aerodynamic walk-in van, said the two companies involved. Utilimaster Corp. is assembling the vehicle and...

In a truck parking survey mandated by the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century” Act (MAP-21), almost half of the state departments of...

In trading Wednesday, the price of crude oil reached its highest level in over a year, as cold winter weather propped up the pric

There is a move to get Pennsylvania to join th majority of states when it comes to having higher speed limits.

The Kenworth assembly plant in Renton, Wash., was recently honored with a 2011 Gold Award presented by the King County (Wash.) Industrial Waste Program

The circumstances behind the 2009 crash of a passenger jet illustrate why we should take it slow on the road to autonomous driving.

Western Star's movie-themed 2012 calendar is now available

Volvo Group announced it's making changes in its trucks strategy to achieve its goal of improving its operating margin by 3 percentage points, including...

Earlier this month, Ricky Simmons outmaneuvered other contestants in his racecar-hauling rig to win the second "International Truck Challenge" of the season...

You run a trucking business that uses owner-operators in California. What are your options now that the state has passed legislation that may make it...

Netradyne released findings from a recent online survey of commercial drivers that indicates commercial drivers feel safe but acknowledge they could be...

One20 has added the One20 Fuel Program as a membership benefit for truckers that could save members money in fuel costs, the company announced at the...

Intermec Technologies Corp., Everett, Wash., announced it will host two educational summit

Pilot Flying J named Kyle Cones as its 2014 Road Warrior winner. Cones is a U.S. Army veteran and driver for Pride Transport. He will receive a $10,000...

The Washington State Department of Transportation expects a bridge expansion joint repair project to cause lengthy traffic backups and delays in Olympia...