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The number of crashes involving trucks took another dive during 1999 as the industry improved its safety record for the second year in the row, according to preliminary statistics from the Department of Transportation.

Cattle ranchers, steel makers and trucking company executives fanned out across Capitol Hill last week in an effort to spark congressional interest in heavier trucks.

The British government is clamping down on the rising number of immigrants seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, and English truckers feel like they have gotten caught in the squeeze.

Board members of the Transportation Loss Prevention & Security Council of American Trucking Associations are scheduled to vote April 11 on a restructuring plan to merge it with another affiliated group.

Truck companies that haul spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors could face having to equip their tractor-trailers with much-scorned “black boxes” and complying with strict standards to carry the cargo.

CSX has deliberately deferred needed maintenance on its rail lines to make its financial results look better, the safety director of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees has charged.

Roadway Express has until April 12 to tell a federal appeals court why it should not have to turn over employment records to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a case involving charges that the company refuses to promote blacks or hire women.

Meritor Automotive and Arvin Industries will join in a $7.5 - billion “merger of equals,” combining Meritor’s penetration of heavy-vehicle markets with Arvin’s strength in the light-vehicle business, spokesmen for both companies said April 6.

At the request of American Trucking Associations, the federal government is weighing whether New Mexico’s rules and fees for haulers of liquefied petroleum gas and compressed natural gas are legal.

Two Canadian trucking operations have bonded, with a less-than-truckload carrier acquiring a truckload firm.