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Truckers got their annual doses of increased inspections and appreciation June 1-5.

A handful of trucking companies and their attorney are taking on the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, alleging in a class-action lawsuit that federal investigators exceeded their authority by conducting SWAT-like “raids” against the carriers.

In less than a month, commercial truckers across the country will pull to the roadside and turn off their engines to show regulatory authorities that bias against truck drivers will not be tolerated. Or will they?

Transit Group of Atlanta announced plans to acquire three more trucking companies, bringing to 18 the number it has purchased since July 1997.

Congratulations all around are due to the industry and labor officials who successfully crafted a four-year agreement last week to keep the nation’s autohaulers carrying vehicles between manufacturing plants and dealerships.

We need to mount an aggressive agenda to address highway congestion.

Schneider National may have validated the technology that makes it possible to locate and track trailers unhooked from power units in announcing at the end of April a deal to retrofit much of its fleet of 43,000 trailers with a product developed by Vantage Tracking Solutions.

The American Trucking Associations’ Information Technology & Logistics Council is expected to draw about 300 participants to its first meeting to discuss advances and other technological trends affecting trucking.

The debate over on-highway electronic clearance of commercial trucks has broken down into two major turf wars: One battlefield pits the private vs. the public sector and the other arena is technology.

When you’re the driver of the big rig, it isn’t easy to convince a jury that the accident wasn’t your fault. But what if you had undeniable evidence that the four-wheeler cut you off and then slammed on his brakes right in front of you?