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TT File PhotoAmerican Trucking Associations commemorated the third anniversary of the scheduled implementation of the trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement by urging President Clinton to completely open four Southwestern states to Mexican trucks.

The Department of Transportation is responding to criticism from safety groups that the Federal Highway Administration is not adequately handling truck safety.

Congress is expected to try again next year to update the nation’s postal laws, but any changes will likely be far from the privatization efforts that have taken hold in Europe.

The Federal Highway Administration today announced it is considering using a negotiated rulemaking to update hours of service regulations for truck drivers.

A familiar trucking critic is adding its voice to the debate over moving the Office of Motor Carriers from the Federal Highway Administration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency he has criticized for years, is a better home for the Office of Motor Carriers than the Federal Highway Administration.

For those few members of the media not covering the Clinton impeachment proceedings, truck safety is the issue du jour, courtesy of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.).

Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways is using a new tactic in its attacks on trucking.

Diesel prices have dropped below $1 a gallon for the first time since at least 1994, when the Energy Information Administration began compiling diesel price information.

CRASH last week gave reporters its third annual list of truck-involved fatalities by state. Texas had the worst record in 1997, with 454 deaths according to CRASH.