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Weight limits on some rural bridges can be increased 25% or more without compromising safety or inflicting damage, allowing heavy vehicles to use the spans and cut their operating costs, according to a civil engineer from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Trucking companies indulged in some Christmas shopping, maintaining the high sales numbers for heavy-duty trucks through the month of November.

Is another big-time merger among less-than-truckload carriers in the offing?

Holland’s TNT Post Group has paid $360 million to acquire the French express delivery company, Jet Services.

TT File PhotoAmerican Trucking Associations commemorated the third anniversary of the scheduled implementation of the trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement by urging President Clinton to completely open four Southwestern states to Mexican trucks.

Evidence mounted that the Environmental Protection Agency knew long before it lowered the boom on diesel engine makers that their engines had pollution problems and that EPA’s own certification test was so poorly designed it failed to detect illegal emissions levels.

The Environmental Protection Agency apparently believes it isn’t accountable, at least not to TT, our many readers, the trucking industry at large or the American public.

Federal Express Corp. and the Fedex Pilots Association reached a tentative agreement on their first-ever contract.

Record low fuel costs may sound like a boon for trucking, but some carrier executives say diesel prices have been met by demands from shippers for reduced freight charges.

The Department of Transportation is responding to criticism from safety groups that the Federal Highway Administration is not adequately handling truck safety.