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Class 8 heavy-truck sales dipped 5.4% in June from the May 2001 high of 13,719, as five of eight nameplates sold fewer heavy-duty trucks than they did the month before. The total was 12,980.

Amendments acceptable to the Bush administration were beaten back on a 63-35 vote on Wednesday as the Senate continued debating the provisions to admit Mexican trucks into the United States.

Channel Logistics, Euro-Log Enter Alliance; Vastera and Emery Worldwide Join Forces; Lawmakers Seek to Balance Demands; and more...

In a unanimous move, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut production of crude oil by 1 million barrels a day effective Sept. 1.

The year 2000 will be remembered as the year in which everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Fuel costs soared, the stock market fell, insurance premiums doubled and tripled for some firms, used truck values plummeted and demand for freight services softened. It was trucking’s equivalent of the perfect storm.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.Instead of cutting each other’s throats over rates, we should band together and lobby Washington to get them to regulate rates.

NHTSA Investigating Firestone Replacement Tire Model; Poor Earnings Lead to More Job Cuts; Wabash Posts $10.8 Million Loss; and more...

Soft Keyboards Ease Mobile Messaging; Business Models Affect Collaboration; Wireless Streaming Technology Still Unproven and more...

Transport Topics’ latest ranking of the 100 largest U.S. trucking companies tells a lot about how this industry has been weathering the tough economy in the past year or so.

The past year or so has been difficult for the trucking industry on the economic front. Slowing freight volumes, higher fuel costs, rising insurance premiums and increasing employee compensation have wreaked havoc with many carriers’ operations.