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Trucking’s chief regulator put on a softer face as she outlined a three-pronged approach to improve truck safety that includes education, enforcement and expanded use of technology.

Schneider National, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, expects to boost its intermodal business 20% this year and expand the number of intermodal containers in its fleet from 750 to 2,000.

The federal fee for hazardous materials transport registration would take a big jump for a relatively small number of larger carriers and shippers under a new proposal advanced by a cash-hungry Research and Special Programs Administration.

The reviews are in on the Department of Transportation’s draft study of truck size and weight. And depending on the reviewer, the study is good, bad or downright ugly.

The wheels of justice continue to grind slowly in the case of the consent decrees six diesel engine makers signed with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency in October.

A botched environmental review of the plan to replace the decaying Woodrow Wilson Bridge could force trucks off the crucial Interstate 95 span.

Trucks cabs are business offices, and that’s the way manufacturers should configure them, said the chief executive of one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers.

Creech Bros. Truck Lines is joining forces with Turbo Transport, a new freight brokerage and logistics company, to broaden its service.

It wasn’t so long ago that the rail and trucking industries were grudgingly brought to the intermodal table by a few maritime companies, which were looking for ways to move their loads of freight more quickly and cheaply.

I know Mr. Scapellato [former director of the Office of Motor Carriers Research and Standards] fairly well, having first met him during a temporary assignment in the Georgia regional office of the Federal Highway Administration when I was serving as special assistant to the deputy director for field operations — a long title for a generalist. I also knew “Scap” in headquarters.