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The recent confirmation hearing for Surface Transportation Board nominee Wayne Burkes served as a preview of the upcoming debate on reauthorization of the regulatory body.

A major critic of trucking and the industry’s most powerful group agreed last week to work together on improving trucking safety and to support formation of a blue ribbon panel that would study the issues further.

In a perfect transportation world, trains, planes, ships and trucks work flawlessly in concert to move people and freight across the country.

Trucking companies that receive calls to their toll-free numbers from pay phones got a slight reprieve when a surcharge on such services was lowered by more than four cents a call.

Trucking and freight companies of all kinds are confident that the economic environment will remain strong throughout 1999, despite some forecasts of an overdue downturn.

The AFL-CIO has given lukewarm support to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s latest attempt at an ergonomics regulation, which is still opposed by trucking and other industries.

After two and a half years of research and development, Mack Trucks is ready to roll the dice in a bet that it can claim a major share of the long-haul truck market. Pictured: Wind tunnel tests directed a design in which lightweight composite materials smooth airflow over the cab.

The fate of James P. Hoffa is in the hands of an election appeals master.

United Road Services is putting together the first national nonunion auto hauling and towing network..

The news that Rep. Frank Wolf has been meeting with American Trucking Associations President Walter McCormick and others over a possible joint approach to regulatory reform that could enhance truck safety is a great step forward.