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State police in Michigan and Illinois are testing a device that its inventors claim can be used roadside to determine if truckers are too fatigued to be driving.

Motor carriers and shippers, frequently at odds over the issue of freight classification, have agreed to work together to determine how to classify shipments of poisonous materials.

The elected leader of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance wants to build partnerships with highway safety and truck crash victim advocacy groups to help improve truck and bus safety.

The Manitoba Trucking Association is making a dent in the province’s driver shortage and groups of unemployed Manitobans will benefit from its efforts in Canada.

Regulators, researchers and interest groups will hash out federal truck size and weight issues at a workshop that runs from May 10 to 11 in Irvine, Calif.

The Department of Transportation's comment period for the proposed changes to the hours-of-service regulation began last week, but response was already flowing into the agency as truck drivers, industry executives and safety critics took to the Internet to post their opinions.

Cheating the wind to save fuel — more properly known as the science of aerodynamics — seems to have caught on with the cabs of today’s highway tractors. But truckers and fleet managers have been slow to warm up to aerodynamic trailers.

The Manitoba Trucking Association is making a dent in the province’s driver shortage and groups of unemployed Manitobans will benefit from its efforts in Canada.

This afternoon's headlines: Truck inspectors hit the highways in Minnesota; Former W. Va. truck inspector sentenced for extortion; and Michigan to close rest stop on Interstate 96 for roadwork.

The elected leader of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance wants to build partnerships with highway safety and truck crash victim advocacy groups to help improve truck and bus safety.