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With parking lots for boardinghouses as many as 26 nights a month and pressure to get loads to their destinations, it’s little wonder that truckers get limited rest and exercise, and don’t eat well.

American Trucking Associations, industry suppliers and motor carriers are chipping in to develop a multimillion dollar national advertising and image campaign that stresses trucking’s essential nature and safety record.

It doesn’t always take a customer, shipper, dispatcher or manager to appreciate a truck driver. Sometimes the greatest recognition of all comes from right at home. Driver Bobby Goines Sr. found that out when his son won Chattanooga, Tenn.’s first Father of the Year essay contest.

If sales of Class 8 trucks keep going the way they are, the dawn of the new millennium will see more than 250,000 rigs less than a year old plying the nation’s highways.

Two truckload fleets are going the extra mile to bring in drivers. Barr-Nunn Transportation is putting photos of drivers on the sides of its trailers, while Maverick Transportation has launched a new training program to promote a more satisfying work environment.

United Parcel Service says delays in service from CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. are getting worse, forcing the package carrier to divert more traffic from the rails to the highways.

Having an accident is bad enough without having to struggle through rehabilitation in a strange hospital thousands of miles away from friends and family. But a specially-designed bus may be the solution to get ailing truckers home.

An Israeli citizen who operated a moving company in Pembroke Park, Fla., pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges, including mail fraud, conspiracy and hiring illegal immigrants.

Saia Motor Freight Line President Jimmy D. Crisp has resigned, effective Aug. 31. Crisp is leaving to purchase a North Carolina-based motor freight carrier.

In the news this morning: Canadian border upgrades coming soon; Belt railway of Chicago offers cross-town traffic alternative; and Vancouver port's new advisory board holds first meeting.