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Hadley Auto Transport, a family-owned business started in 1931, has been sold to Hidden Creek Industries, a Minneapolis-based investment management firm with interests in a variety of automotive and truck equipment suppliers.

A management group led by president William H. Clark has purchased Trans-States Lines of Fort Smith, Ark., from the H.L. Hembree family, which has owned the company since 1989.

Amid all the millennium hype, which has generally absorbed and replaced the seemingly endless Y2K hype, a few moments of reflection reveal that 1999 was a very busy and productive year for trucking.

Walter B. McCormick Jr., president of the American Trucking Associations, recently called upon Edward R. Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads, to meet with him to discuss freight transportation productivity.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general recommends using recording devices to assist in efforts to improve surface transportation safety, which he says needs to remain a top priority at the agency.

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley visited a Teamsters picket line at an Overnite Transportation terminal in Moonatchie, N.J., last week to garner support from the union.

A new feature of the Transportation Department’s SafeStat system enables motor carriers to check where they rank on the priority list for federal safety compliance reviews.

This afternoon's headlines: Viking hikes fuel surcharges with anotrher increase to follow; Government unions begin to organize private subcontractors; and Peters named head of Penske.

The booming U.S. economy has been a two-edged sword for trucking: nearly full employment is fueling high demand for freight services, but fewer people seem ready to drive trucks at existing pay levels.

Even as the United States tightened security at its borders in hopes of thwarting terrorist incursions from abroad, trucks rolled routinely through most ports of entry on the eve of the millennium.