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A merger of Devine Intermodal of Sacramento, Calif., and Ted Peters Trucking Co. of Manteca, Calif., has created the largest company-owned intermodal trucking fleet in California, company officials said.

Despite all the improvements that have occurred in the evolution of the equipment, the roadways and the handling of freight, drivers remain the industry’s indispensable linchpin, without which the wheels would fall off.

I am a female truck driver. I used to run solo, but then started running team so that myself and my team member could stay legal in our logbooks. We both love to drive, but it is not an easy job.

Leave it to truck drivers who deliver practically everything we eat and drink to turn National Truck Driver Appreciation Week into an opportunity to pick up and deliver food for hungry children.

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.