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Due to an overwhelming public response, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has withdrawn proposed rule changes that trucking company owners feared would have increased enforcement powers and required them to address ergonomic hazards.

Trucking safety is under close scrutiny in North Carolina, where two groups’ work on how to improve the state’s highways and roads could lead to big changes for truckers.

Liquid Transport Corp, Indianapolis, will expand its bulk chemical and petroleum hauling business in the upper Midwest with the purchase of Mississippi Transport of Stillwater, Minn.

Trucking hauls just under 70% of the nation’s business freight, according to new government statistics.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s belated response last week to TT’s ongoing series regarding what the agency knew about how flawed its diesel engine emissions tests were, and when officials knew it, only adds more questions to the debate.

The following column appeared in the Dec. 13, 1998, issue of the Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, and is reprinted with permission.

Gary “Duke” Downey and Keith Davis are not your typical truckers.

Federal and state governments are doing a poor job of inspecting trucks at the U.S.-Mexican border, an audit has found.

Trucking representatives are denouncing the Department of Transportation’s draft study of truck sizes and weights as flawed and lacking substance.

Trucking hauls just under 70% of U.S. business freight, according to new government statistics.