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CHICAGO — American Trucking Associations proposes to train the nation’s 3 million over-the-road drivers to help safeguard the country from terrorist acts.

ARLINGTON, Va. - Two top U.S. officials in border security issues said the government is expanding new cargo prescreening and border-clearance efforts for trucking companies as well as shippers.

The chairman of a House committee last week said the House is likely to approve legislation to open Nevada’s Yucca Mountain repository for spent nuclear fuel.

Five years after California passed its ergonomics regulations to protect workers against repetitive stress injuries, state trucking company violations have been negligible if not non-existent, said Warren Hoemann, vice president of the 2,500-member California Trucking Association.

Fuel cells, created during the space race to the moon, have an attractive simplicity to them and a huge advantage over internal combustion engines in the emissions department.

SAN ANTONIO — A Research and Special Programs Administration decision to continue hazmat registration fees at the same level in fiscal year 2003 came under fire during last week’s semi-annual meeting of American Trucking Associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council.

SAN ANTONIO — Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement agencies have shifted their attention to preventing terrorism and are spending less time on cargo theft crimes, officials told the semi-annual meeting of American Trucking Associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council.

Two months after FedEx Corp. unknowingly carried a radiation-emitting package from Sweden to New Orleans, motor carriers are working harder than ever to ensure they know exactly what they are carrying and for whom. ost carriers have been re-evaluating and tightening security procedures — as well as increasing security training for employees — since the events of Sept. 11.

Retail sales of Class 8 trucks were down 27.3% in January compared with the same month in 2001 as demand for trucking services remained flat amid a weak economy..

The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has begun soliciting voluntary participation from motor carriers in reporting stolen guns to combat one of the fastest-growing trends in cargo theft.