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Any effort to increase highway taxes must be tied to a crackdown on the overweight vehicles that are tearing up those roads, South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow said Monday.

An Iowa truck driver helped capture a suspected thief who led state police on a high speed chase on Interstate-80 in Pennsylvania.

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics are still three years away, but trucking is already working on preparations.

American Freightways Corporation announced Monday that it will expand its direct coverage to Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The Environmental Protection Agency is under investigation by the House Commerce Committee over its handling of claims that diesel engine manufacturers cheated on federal emissions tests. A settlement of the dispute led to the largest environmental penalty ever imposed in U.S. history.

Is bigger better? Or is smaller beautiful? Some in the trucking and railroad industries would take issue with both. Trucking sees bigger loads increasing the productivity of drivers, but its rail counterpart fears the loss of freight business.

Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, vowed to get Congress to support his plan to move the Office of Motor Carriers from the Federal Highway Administration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

What a year it was for lawyers, labor unions and lobbyists. And not a bad year for business, either.

They might as well post a sign at the entrance to the Alexandria, Va., headquarters of American Trucking Associations, saying “Welcome to the New ATA.”

Highway spending dominated the first half of 1998 as Congress worked to complete a massive surface transportation bill. No sooner had President Clinton signed the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century into law than trucking safety was thrust into the spotlight by a proposal to place the Office of Motor Carriers in a new home.