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Dramatic trucker protests over fuel costs continued on three continents last week, as Europe considered tapping its own large oil reserves to help force prices down after President Clinton ordered a release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

For the second time in his nearly half a century of trucking, Bill Whim, who has covered 5 million miles without an accident, is American Trucking Associations’ National Driver of the Year.

The Safety Management Council will debate integrating the responsibility for cargo claims and cargo security issues into its safety mandate during SMC’s annual meeting, continuing through Oct. 4 in St. Louis.

Federal and state investigators say a Georgia third-party tester sold over 500 CDLs to unqualified applicants during the past two years.

Executives from trucking companies large and small offered detailed accounts to federal officials of the costs their companies would incur if the hours of service regulations proposed by the Department of Transportation took effect.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration soon should have sharper teeth to go after motor carriers that are in arrears in payment of fines and penalties.

Xtra Lease will install 25,000 Terion trailer-tracking units on its rental trailers.

Logistics and trucking industry leaders are creating their own Internet-based services because they consider information generated by their network of suppliers and customers too valuable to pass on to third-party, Internet-based firms.

Leaders in the freight industry insist that the advent of new technology will not negate the need for a large and productive workforce.

Canada’s Trimac Corp. could vanish from the Toronto Stock Exchange by Nov. 30 and become a privately held firm if a proposal from the company’s dominant McCaig family comes to pass.