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The Federal Highway Administration is reviewing self-insurance standards for trucking companies.

Trucking has given a thumbs up to two proposals to raise licensing fees in Illinois and the thumb down to legislation that would introduce new smoke regulations in the state with the nation’s highest truck traffic.

When Wal-Mart Stores implemented a software program last year to automate its freight bidding and lane assignment processes, the company expected to save millions of dollars annually in transportation costs.

Analysts are sticking to their predictions of a stabilization in diesel costs despite a half-cent rise in the price per gallon from last week.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s high time the federal government wraps up its work on new hours of service for truck drivers. The board wants to see the regulations in place within two years.

It’s time for the federal government to let go of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

When J. Harwood Cochrane founded truckload carrier Highway Express in 1991, he was starting his “second career” with high hopes.

On April 1, the U.S. Customs Service hooked up its beleaguered Automated Commercial System to a sort of Internet-based life support.

Class 8 trucks sales maintained a torrid pace through the first four months of 1999 — more than 27% better than the mark reached at this point during 1998’s record-setting run.

Shipments of trailers and chassis in the first three months of 1999 fell short of the mark set in 1998 by nearly 14%, continuing a trend seen since the beginning of the year.