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An Idaho District Court rejected Idaho's attempts to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the American Trucking Associations’ against the state’s weight-distance tax.

The Federal Highway Administration used new authority granted by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to issue exemptions from federal standards to 24 truck drivers with deficient eyesight.

An Iowa judge ordered a trucking company convicted of falsifying driver logbooks to implement a monitoring system and pay fines.

Viking Freight said it would implement a 5.8% rate increase effective Jan. 4, 1999.

National Processing Inc. is exploring the sale of its freight payment processing business.

Central American Medical Outreach is looking for trucking companies willing to help its relief efforts to get badly needed supplies to Honduran victims of Hurricane Mitch.

The last Senate race in the nation ended Dec. 9 when Rep. John Ensign (R-Nev.) (pictured) conceded the Nov. 3 election to incumbent Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Mr. Ensign said it was apparent that a recount would not give him sufficient votes to overturn Mr. Reid’s election.

A new standard issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration could require trucking companies to give training lessons to their drivers on how to safely operate forklifts.

The Department of Defense's decision to roll out a new computerized system for calculating mileage is not popular with small businesses.

Eck Miller Transportation, a unit of Intrenet Inc., acquired the assets of CWP Transportation, a flatbed and freight brokerage business.