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Tom Leedham, a former vice president for the Teamsters, has renewed his challenge to incumbent President James P. Hoffa for the union’s top job.

Volvo Trucks Canada and Centennial College in Ontario are about to send their first group of 18 trained truck technicians into the world. These students are the first beneficiaries of a 36-week apprenticeship program started in September at Centennial as a partnership between the company and the college.

With fleet insurance rates on the rise, conventional wisdom might be to aggressively shop your insurance program for the cheapest rate. Such a strategy at this time may well prove disastrous for unlucky trucking firms.

The Environmental Protection Agency and American Trucking Associations will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court on how air pollution standards are set.

Trucking insiders have given an emphatic thumbs-up to the appointment of Clyde J. Hart Jr. as acting deputy administrator at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

A sharp rise in insurance rates is forcing truck companies to accept more risk as well as incur higher operating costs. The problem could reach crisis levels before long, some observers say, and may even push some truckers out of business.

Rep. Lee Terry wants to stop the proposed hours-of-service rules dead in their tracks.

In-truck computers to monitor driver hours were endorsed by some of the largest trucking companies in the country when the Arkansas Trucking Association voted last week to support the proposed federal mandate for “black boxes” on trucks.

Three major trailer leasing companies are spending millions to put conspicuity tape on the trailers and containers used by their customers before a June 1, 2001, federal deadline.

As if a chicken’s life weren’t tough enough — cooped up, pecking at seeds, people taking your eggs — now poultry in Canada has to go out and work for a living.