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Sales of heavy-duty Class 8 trucks slipped 0.5% in June from a year earlier, despite indications that many fleets are buying 2002 models at an accelerated rate to avoid the Oct. 1 deadline after which trucks are to have new lower-emission engines.

He tried to keep it a secret. But when his employer, TMC Transportation, asked for a background check, it was a secret revealed: The “Professor” was no professor.

West Coast Port Workers Give Negotiators Strike Authority • Gasoline Price Drops in Calif., Rises in Texas • Bill Would Add More Garbage Truck Inspectors at Border • W.Va. Studies Heavy Trucks on Turnpike Bridges • And more...

(Click here for a partial transcript of the chat.)Expanding American Trucking Associations' Highway Watch program to teach truckers and dispatchers how to report potential security breaches is a low-tech way to make a quick difference in the war on terrorism, ATA security adviser Jeffrey Beatty said during an online chat with TTNews.com users.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.AAA, formerly the American Automobile Association, has finally accepted what we’ve been reporting for years: In car-truck crashes, it’s more often the automobile driver who’s at fault.

Inexpensive mortgages helped pushed the sales of new homes to a record pace in June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, while a national real estate trade association reported sales of existing homes down 11.7%, the biggest drop since April 1995.

New orders for durable goods dropped by 3.8% in June to $166.6 billion, marking the largest decline in seven months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Traders Think OPEC Will Boost Production • Mullen Posts Lower Quarterly Earnings • Wash. Court Rules Teamsters Must Get Extra Breaks • Bandag Earnings Up; Sees Trucking Activity Improving • And more...

A provision in the pending energy bill requiring production of 5 billion gallons of ethanol in 2012 threatens to drain the Highway Trust Fund, according to highway lobbyists and leaders on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has joined those pressing the Bush administration to postpone the Environmental Protection Agency’s Oct. 1 deadline for heavy-duty diesel engines to meet new emission standards, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.