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In the news this morning: Ryder CEO to retire; Landstar 3Q earnings per share up over 1999; Cummins earnings fall on weak North American market; and more.

Today's Technology Headlines: Metricom's Ricochet wireless service off to slow start; Lucent unveils software to improve wireless networks; Sun prepares to enter logistics sector; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Delphi 3Q earnings match estimates; more L.A. workers strike as MTA makes final offer; Senate unmoved so far on fuel surcharge bill; and more.

Trucking won its biggest legislative victory of the year Oct. 3 when a key congressional panel officially prohibited the Department of Transportation from altering the industry’s work rules for at least 12 months.

Two and a half years ago, the board of directors of American Trucking Associations approved a plan to remake the 67-year-old federation with the goal of becoming “best-in-class” at the business of advocacy.

The average price of diesel fuel in the United States fell for the first time in nine weeks, as the nation’s crude oil inventory rose and the government prepared to release oil from its strategic reserve.

A creaky third quarter for trucking could be followed by a rocky year’s end if recent warnings of falling profit margins from the industry’s major companies are an accurate indicator.

The top three fleets that won this year’s American Trucking Associations President’s Trophies showed that by paying meticulous attention to safety details — not only to the mechanical aspects, but also to the human factors — they have developed championship environments.

American Trucking Associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council officially came into existence last week as the lobbying group continued its reorganization during the Safety Management Council meeting that was held Oct. 1-4 in St. Louis.

More than new equipment, more than electronic commerce, more than the continued growth of the medium-duty market in the United States, the story in trucks now, for 2001 and probably for the next decade is the changing world truck order.