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Overnite Transportation Co., Richmond, Va., said profits fell 17.6% in the third quarter of 1999, reflecting investment in expanding full-state coverage and reducing transit times.

How prepared is the United States is to handle an influx of Mexican trucks once the southern border opens? At the National Transportation Safety Board’s three-day public hearing on just that question, the answer was: not very.

With 14 months to go before the Jan. 1, 2001, deadline for ATA’s affiliated conferences to decide whether to remain with the parent organization, several of the largest groups have yet to make up their minds.

Eighteen months after ending discounted membership dues, American Trucking Associations has solidified its base of carrier members and is putting in place the elements for a widespread campaign to recruit and retain members, association officials said last week.

Shippers that plan to hoard trailers for storage or excess capacity during the year-end holiday season could get slapped with a detention charge from their carriers.

Small carriers that thought zapping invoices to shippers electronically was a pipe dream may be in for a shock when they learn that electronic data interchange is being offered at a price they can afford.

Stock market analysts who keep their eyes on trucking feel pretty good about the industry’s prospects, but getting investors to share that feeling may take some work.

Congress is prodding the Department of Transportation to crack down on Mexican motor carriers operating illegally in the United States.

There were three national flags hanging behind the dais at the National Transportation Safety Board’s hearing on cross-border transportation Oct. 20, but only two of the governments represented by those flags actually showed up to participate - Canada and the United States.

Conducting fiscally conservative, sound science that advances trucking’s agenda is the goal of the ATA Foundation.