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In what some are calling the most significant development in federal trucking oversight in nearly 20 years, Congress is poised to establish a separate motor carrier safety agency.

The Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety will go out of business if President Clinton signs a transportation spending bill that received final approval from Congress Oct. 4.

The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed phase one of its plan to drastically curtail truck pollution within the next decade.

Truckers who feel as if they’re the ones who will end up paying for a $1 billion settlement between the nation’s six largest diesel engine makers and the Environmental Protection Agency are suing the engine producers.

As hard as it was to kill the Oregon weight-distance tax, it may be equally tough to keep it dead, now that oppenents are trying force a public vote on the tax's repeal.

People stuck their heads through the back door of the big sleeper box from Indiana Custom Trucks on display at the recent Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. “C’mon in, folks,” urged John Miller, a sales representative for ICT, sitting in the sleeper’s dining nook. “Take a look around.”

Trucking companies have shot themselves in the foot by failing to improve driver wages sooner, a consultant to the industry warned at a recent transportation conference.

Carriers that have not done any testing to see if they are ready to dodge the computer problems associated with the changeover to the Year 2000 had better be prepared to unravel an awful mess when they show up for work Jan. 1 — if they can get in the building at all.

Determined to prove that technology can prevent truck accidents, the federal government is plunking down $3.5 million to field-test the most promising safety gear on in-service trucks.

The fight over union representation at Overnite Transportation Co. took several dramatic turns last week, with the company filing a defamation lawsuit against the Teamsters, and a federal judge denying a request for a temporary restraining order to stop rail workers from joining a threatened Teamsters strike against the carrier.