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Vehicle sizes and weights are a contentious topic as old as trucking. But at an Oct. 12 session on carrier issues during the Council of Logistics Management's annual conference, one trucking leader took the opportunity to explain why adding one axle to trailers would boost productivity and be easier on roads.

A candidates debate designed to increase interest in the upcoming Teamsters election fell apart Friday after the second of three candidates pulled out.

The Council of Logistics Management honored several distinguished members during its annual convention.

The Alabama Bureau of Investigation says a man wanted for murder may be hiding out at truck stops near the Alabama-Mississippi border and may try to solicit rides from truck drivers.

FDX Corp. named Joseph C. McCarty chief executive officer of FDX Global Logistics, a new organization that will include Caliber Logistics. He also will serve as CEO of Caliber Logistics.

Congress agreed to a $500 billion budget package Thursday that includes Department of Transportation and highway funding for fiscal 1999, but left at least one key trucking issue unresolved: Will the Office of Motor Carriers get a new home.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is suing a trucking company to recover the $2.7 million damage caused to a section of Interstate 95 by a gasoline tanker crash.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises filed suit against Employee Solutions Inc. after the Phoenix-based professional employer organization unilaterally terminated its contract with the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based trucking company.