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It is a telling indication of how competitive trucking has become when in a year in which everything is breaking your way, you can still lose your shirt.

Preston Trucking Co.’s abrupt closing last month has raised questions about the timing of the decision and whether former parent Yellow Corp. might end up having to pay its Teamsters’ pension bill.

As midnight strikes on Aug. 22, some trucking companies may be like Little Bo-Peep — unable to find equipment near and far because of a handicap in old global positioning satellite receivers.

Before the Department of Transportation issues its proposed hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, it should make public the scientific research used to draw up the measure, insists American Trucking Associations.

House Republicans have succeeded in passing legislation to block implementation of a proposed ergonomics work rule, and it has a good chance of getting through the Senate. But the bill could encounter a presidential veto when it reaches the Oval Office.

Matlack Systems of Wilmington, Del., announced the resignation of two of its top executives a day after the company reported a 15.7% drop in revenue and a significant loss on operations in its fiscal third quarter.

A federal court ruling could require New Jersey trucking companies to pay their drivers more for overtime work than a state regulation demanded.

A disgruntled maintenance worker at a Watkins Motor Lines terminal shot and killed a supervisor and then took his own life.

Dock worker David Jones is on medical leave from his job at a Yellow Freight System terminal in Minnesota after being awarded more than $1.75 million in a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company.

Anthony D. Portanova is the new deputy commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles. He will oversee the agency’s Commercial Vehicle Safety, Dealers and Repairers and Auto Crime Investigative divisions.