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A trucking company owner and a truck driver have been indicted in connection with an accident that killed a couple from North Plainfield, N.J.

The nation’s harshest trucking critic and the largest state trucking association have joined forces to oppose plans to open four southwestern states to increased truck traffic from Mexico until a variety of safety concerns are met.

Almost half of truckload carrier executives surveyed by Transport Topics during the Truckload Carriers Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas think federal and state truck safety laws need significant improvement.

The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.

For the Chinese, 1999 is the year of the rabbit. For the National Transportation Safety Board, this is the year of heavy vehicle safety.

When the Industrial Truck Association meets this week in Washington, D.C., its members will be basking in a victory.

Cargo theft is big business. The FBI estimates that $6 billion in goods is stolen from trucks, trains, ships and planes each year.

Additional indictments were handed down in a bribery scandal involving commercial driver licensing in Illinois that has now spread to the state transportation department.

Legislation to eliminate a visa check system at international border crossings for trucking has been introduced in both houses of Congress.