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It’s obvious when you step into it that this is no ordinary trailer. It has a reception area, a classroom and even a kitchenette. This trailer is supposed to look good.

Amid continued robust sales of Class 8 trucks in February, another banner year is predicted for truck makers.

After decades of feeling like second-class citizens, truckload carriers are being aggressively wooed by an American Trucking Associations eager to expand its membership and political influence.

James P. Hoffa was sworn in March 22 as general president of the Teamsters union. He took the oath of office at the union’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., after a federal judge on Friday upheld his election over protests.

Three witnesses to the deadly Amtrak crash have given possibly conflicting statements about when warning signals and crossing gates activated at the crossing, a federal official said Monday.

Responding to last week’s collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a tractor trailer, the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee will hold a hearing March 25 on grade crossing safety.

Lack of votes for a plan to impose an immediate 4-cent-a-gallon increase on diesel fuel prompted its sponsor to start talking compromise with supporters of another plan to phase in the higher taxes.

The president of American Trucking Associations was trying to sell his vision for integration with The Maintenance Council at its annual conference.

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. selected 5 finalists from 24 state and provincial semifinalists, one of whom will be named Highway Hero for 1998.

American Trucking Associations last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a Washington state truck tax unconstitutional.