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A decision on rate-making handed down by the Surface Transportation Board has met with approval from shippers but has truckers protesting.

A Tennessee businessman has purchased the trucking fleet of Idahoan Foods in Lewisville, Idaho, and formed a new company, called Golden Valley Transportation, to provide nationwide truckload service.

As dedicated as the people who make up the nation’s trucking industry are to their professional responsibilities, asking them to transport the national economy for free — or to pay out of their own pockets to haul it — is going more than a bit too far.

America is riding the crest of an eight-year economic boom. Trucking companies are busy delivering more freight than ever. So why are trucking companies suffering? Don’t kid yourself. We are weaker and more fragmented today than ever.

PNV Inc., whose cable TV and phone hookups are popping up in parking lots, is now offering Internet kiosks inside truck stops.

Two days of downpour have turned much of the ground under Andy Zorn Jr.’s feet into a cold, soupy mixture of mud and gravel, but it doesn’t slow him down.

The fall in orders for new trucks and the rise in cancellations — factors that have prompted production cutbacks among several Class 8 manufacturers this year — have yet to reach the sales side of the market, which was up slightly in January from the same period in 1999.

The Single State Registration System was supposed to be a rest stop on the road to elimination of state registration requirements.

The coalition fighting to retain the repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax sued the state’s chapter of the American Automobile Association, claiming AAA is airing false ads in trying to convince voters to keep the truck tax system.

91ÊÓƵ heating oil delivery carriers would be able to apply for seasonal exemptions from federal hours-of-service regulations beginning Nov. 1 under a pilot program proposed last week.