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TT File PhotoTrailer sales in 1998 kept pace with the strong showing of Class 8 trucks, setting a record of their own with shipment of 344,007 complete trailers and chassis. Year-end figures showed the total to be 47.3% above the 1997 figure of 233,483.

The board of directors of American Trucking Associations this week approved a $54.4 million budget for 1999.

Witnesses will testify about trucking safety Feb. 23 before the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.).

A proposal by Illinois House of Representatives Speaker Michael Madigan to require annual and random emissions tests for Chicago-area trucks is rankling motor carriers in the Windy City.

SignPost Inc. of Hudson, Wis., which publishes a quarterly survey of driver wages, is offering pricing data with publication of its North American Truckload Rate Index.

The beleaguered Oregon Department of Transportation would have to provide lawmakers with a detailed list of highway projects and what they cost under a bill approved in the Oregon House.

There has been little resistance to the Department of Transportation’s recent decision to promote a national standard for transponders and other short-range radio communications equipment.

Delaying a decision on seeking authority to charge tolls on interstates Wednesday gave the state Highway Commission breathing room with legislators at an important juncture in the search for highway funding.

Trucking, railroads and shippers urged Congress to give the Department of Transportation primary jurisdiction over hazardous materials transportation.

Cummins Engine Co. reported higher sales but lower profits in the fourth quarter of 1998 and a loss for the year.