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Truck sales are softening yet deals are harder to put together. Parts and service work is falling short of expectations, and dealer profits declined by one-third in 1999 despite a 25% increase in sales.

With the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration preparing to issue its long-awaited update of the hours-of-service regulations, a senior agency official confirmed some details of what changes the proposal is likely to contain.

A government decision to drop an investigation takes several port truckers out of immediate legal danger, but leaves their long-term efforts to organize bound in bureaucratic muck.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration underestimates the negative effects that its ergonomic rules would have on trucking, according to trucking’s largest lobbying group.

The chief executive officer of CSX Transportation and several of his top assistants were fired last week after a federal agency found problems with track safety at the largest railroad in the eastern United States.

Transportation.com has tapped a former cabinet official and presidential adviser as its chairman of the board to help establish the fledgling Internet business on firm ground.

Maryland put the final touches on its 2000 legislative session April 10 and six bills pertaining to trucking were passed in the final flurry of action.

Another Canadian transportation firm is stepping up its acquisition program.

Higher fuel prices obviously increase the cost of trucking. But how much?

There was bad news for trucking from the Pacific Northwest last week. A coalition of business groups led by the Oregon Trucking Association was forced to concede defeat in its efforts to consign the state’s hated weight-distance tax to oblivion. The monster lives on.