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AB Volvo has decided to cut 5,300 jobs worldwide, including about 1,000 in North America, according to Stefan Lorentzson, spokesman for subsidiary Volvo Truck Corp.

For weeks now, we’ve been hearing from certain quarters that the way to improve trucking safety is to transfer federal oversight from the Federal Highway Administration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

No one in trucking has to be convinced that there’s plenty of competition today.

In Washington, D.C., the arrival of the Capitol Christmas tree is a traditional reminder that the clock is ticking on holiday shopping.

Television and radio channel surfers in Nebraska last week caught the first wave of an advertising campaign created by the Nebraska Motor Carriers Assn. to improve the industry’s image.

The European Union’s Ministers of Transport Committee, meeting in Brussels Dec. 1, accepted a deal that allows EU-registered trucks transit rights through Switzerland, but at a very high price for road transport.

James P. Hoffa, son of one of the most famous union leaders in the history of organized labor, will hold a press conference today following his presumed victory over Tom Leedham to become president of the Teamsters union.

House investigators are reviving their probe into Rep. Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), the House Transportation Committee chairman under fire for his dealings with a lobbyist friend.

The debate over trucking’s safety record ratcheted up another notch Friday as Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways released the group’s annual rankings of the worst states for big truck fatalities.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will ask employers to institute a program to prevent workplace hazards.