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Motor carriers that are delinquent in paying fines levied by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be taken off the road, under a rule that goes into effect April 16.

Citing a “downward trend in the economy” that has “accelerated sharply in the past few weeks,” the chief executive officer of the Union Pacific Railroad said the company will trim some 2,000 jobs from its 50,000-employee workforce in early 2001.

European Union transport ministers have agreed to a plan that will reduce the number of hours truckers may work.

A barrage of ice and snow storms Christmas week brought truck, train and air shipments in the Midwest to a halt, cut power to 500,000 residents and businesses in several states and left a layer of glaring ice on pavements from New Mexico to Arkansas.

The Arkansas Trucking Association is preparing a bill that would be introduced in the General Assembly to revamp the way members of the Arkansas State Highway Commission are selected for office.

This was the year you’ll tell your grandchildren about. The presidential election of 2000 is one for the history books, and for all the sturm and drang about premature media calls on the outcome, hanging chads and legal contests at every level, the experience told volumes about the strength of the American system of government and our faith in it.

Y2K ended for trucking, not with a digitally-induced apocalypse, but with two super-mergers, one for each of the two major sectors of the industry, truckload and less-than-truckload.

Two late-year merger announcements in trucking made a splash on Wall Street in 2000, a year marked otherwise by stagnant or falling stock prices due to concerns that high fuel costs and transportation equities are a bad mix.

After years of study and months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the Department of Transportation unveiled a proposal for reforming hours-of-service rules for truck and bus drivers.

The new millennium picked up where the old one left off, with diesel prices heading skyward. Fuel costs reached new heights in 2000, and the impact was felt throughout the economy, especially by those who operate or build big trucks.