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American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves accepted an #IceBucketChallenge Aug. 20, rallying about 16 ATA staffers to dump buckets of ice water over their heads to show support and awareness for ALS.

Melton Truck Lines is increasing driver pay by 2 cents per mile and will start student driver pay at 37 cents and the most experienced drivers 50 cents.

Insufficient motor carrier route planning, a failure by a pilot/escort to warn of potential hazards and inadequate evaluation of oversize load permit requests by state officials were the probable causes of an oversize truck strike that brought down the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge in Washington state, according to a final investigation report of the National Transportation Safety Board.

A federal judge in New York on Aug. 6 dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed last year by American Trucking Associations alleging that the New York State Thruway Authority is improperly spending more than a billion dollars in toll revenue on maintenance and improvements on the state’s mostly recreational canal system.

Navistar Inc. announced the launch of a  program aimed at increasing the appeal of its later-model used trucks with exhaust gas recirculation engines.

Commercial truck crossings into the United States from Mexico and Canada increased 1.1% to 10.8 million in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute received $55 million in federal contracts to study safety efforts for commercial truck drivers and automated vehicles.

Daimler Trucks North America said it has broken ground at the site of its new headquarters building in Portland, Oregon.

John Henry Cook, a driver for Baylor Trucking for 12 years and a retired Army Staff Sergeant, died June 28. He was 50.