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It has been a good year for Doug Lauer.

James Welch becomes president and chief operating officer of Yellow Corp. starting June 1.

Truckers may cruise Interstate 25 without stopping at a scalehouse now that the highway has become the first major trucking corridor in the nation to be completely wired for electronic weigh station bypass, according to state authorities.

American Freightways Corp. announced plans May 22 to expand into Arizona, its 10th new state since April 1999.

The national average price of diesel fuel, as reported by the Energy Information Administration on May 22, rose 1.7 cents from the week before to $1.432, marking the second consecutive weekly increase, after two weeks of decline that saw the price drop to $1.402 on May 8.

The witness list at the first public hearing on proposed changes to the federal hours-of-service rules shows the extent of concern over the Department of Transportation’s plan to place new limits on the amount of time truck and bus drivers can work.

With fleet insurance rates on the rise, conventional wisdom might be to aggressively shop your insurance program for the cheapest rate. Such a strategy at this time may well prove disastrous for unlucky trucking firms.

The staff of Transport Topics continues to change and expand.

One of the legacies of the great insurance crisis in the mid-1980s was passage of the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, which led to the formation of hundreds of risk retention and insurance purchasing groups.

The availability of vehicle inspection and accident data on the Internet from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is beginning to play a bigger role in determining who qualifies for insurance coverage.