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The Customs Service needs $1.4 billion over the next four years to replace the antiquated and increasingly shaky computer system it has used for the last 16 years, customs chief Raymond W. Kelly told the Senate Finance Committee.

Owners of small businesses had sharp words for the early version of an ergonomics regulation that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is trying to place on the books.

Central Freight Lines, a storied Texas-based regional less-than-truckload carrier, is planning the first initial public offering by a trucking company in more than a year.

Trucking has given a thumbs up to two proposals to raise licensing fees in Illinois and the thumbs down to legislation that would introduce new smoke regulations in the state with the nation's highest truck traffic.

Kansas truckers scored a small victory when the state's legislature passed a transportation plan that relies on fuel taxes, bond sales and the diversion of funds from other sources to pay for $12 billion in infrastructure improvements.

National Tank Truck Carriers will hear from various parties in weighing whether to continue a relationship with its bigger colleague during the group's annual meeting.

A coroner's inquest jury deliberated only 20 minutes before ruling that the deaths of 11 people in the crash of an Amtrak train near Bourbonnais, Ill., were an accident.

After years of riding Wal-Mart's coattails, Cannon Express of Springdale, Ark., finds itself scrambling to recover from the loss of approximately $20 million to $25 million in Wal-Mart freight revenue over the past year.

Class 8 trucks sales maintained a torrid pace through the first four months of 1999 -- more than 27% better than the mark reached at this point during 1998's record-setting run.

Shipments of trailers and chassis in the first three months of 1999 fell short of the mark set in 1998 by nearly 14%, continuing a trend seen since the beginning of the year.