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When the federal government enacted the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, state departments of transportation rejoiced. Finally, everyone working together had obtained the desperately needed funds to improve America’s overworked highway system.

With two months left in 1999, sales of Class 8 trucks have already topped last year’s record total by about 7,000 – but a dip in orders means a third record-setting year is unlikely.

A growing list of communications companies are offering new land-based technologies as alternatives or complements to satellites for data or voice transmissions.

ZF Meritor, a joint venture between Michigan-based Meritor Automotive and the German firm ZF Friedrichshafen, will roll out an automated truck transmission that does not require a clutch pedal.

New regulations designed to reduce the number of truck-train collisions may have the opposite effect and contribute to an increase in accidents, federal officials and others warned last week.

Trucks, trains, ships and planes will be on the minds of the estimated 2,500 shippers who are gathering this week for the 92nd annual meeting of the National Industrial Transportation League.

A driver poll found that poor diet and a lack of exercise were among their top health concerns, and a health expert shared her wellness program with human resources professionals at an ATA forum.

Trucking executives took a new look at some old issues Nov. 8 and 9 at the American Trucking Associations Human Resources Forum in Alexandria, Va.

Twenty-four years after launching its crusade to democritize one of the nation’s most autocratic and corrupt unions, Teamsters for a Democratic Union still faces a hostile union administration.

A growing list of communications companies are offering new land-based technologies as alternatives or complements to satellites for data or voice transmissions.