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TT File PhotoDiesel prices continued to rise last week, making a leap of about 3 cents a gallon, and are closing in on thresholds that may trigger fuel surcharges in freight contracts. Though most companies have shied away from invoking the fee, that may not be the case for long.

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.

Non-union employees of Freightliner Corp. will each receive a $1,000 bonus as well as a raise, the company announced April 1.

How many U.S.-based trucking companies are there? What do they haul? What do drivers earn, and how profitable is the industry?

The Cummins Signature 600 engine received the 1998 Technical Achievement Award from the Truck Writers of North America.

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

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

In a meeting with trucking’s chief regulator last week, ATA Chairman John Wren pressed the Federal Highway Administration to move quickly on updating hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.