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The federal government recognizes that it takes more than good vision to make a good truck driver.

The Environmental Protection Agency flatly denied claims by the nation’s largest diesel engine manufacturers that they had warned the agency in 1994 that its pollution tests were flawed and didn’t properly measure engine emissions.

The full text of a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to Transport Topics.

Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.

The Surface Transportation Board extended for one year the authority of motor carrier rate bureaus to set rates and the National Classification Committee to establish commodity classes for freight moving by truck.

Striking ANR Advance Transportation employees put down their picket signs last week as hope faded for one of the nation’s most enduring trucking companies.

Trucking lobbyists last week endorsed a proposal by House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) to merge jurisdiction over railroads and trucking into a single subcommittee.

Powered by an expanding domestic economy and lower fuel prices, FDX Corp., the parent of Federal Express Corp. and RPS Inc., posted better-than-expected profits in its second fiscal quarter.

Consolidated Freightways said it expects its fourth-quarter earnings to be substantially better than consensus estimates of 28 cents a share.

Penske Logistics was named lead logistics provider for Whirlpool Corp.’s regional distribution system.