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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A long-term boom in Class 8 truck sales is under way and likely to last into 2006, said several manufacturers exhibiting here at the nation’s largest truck show, but the extent depends on how well component suppliers adjust to truck and engine makers’ rising production rates.

Quality Distribution's Loss Widens in 4Q • Freightliner Hiring Workers in Canada, U.S. • FedEx Seeks to Resolve Dispute Over Chinese Tax • K&R Express Systems Shuts Down

Construction workers in Connecticut worked overtime to open the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 on Sunday, three days after a fire from an accident closed the road in both directions.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Diesel Engine Emissions Summit II showed just how quickly the trucking industry has learned how to live with the new federal laws governing heavy-duty diesel engine emissions. And with that knowledge, the attendees were shown, comes possible leverage.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — FedEx Freight will test engines from every major manufacturer before 2007, even as it continues to work out the kinks in current engine models, said Dennis Beal, vice president of physical assets for the less-than-truckload carrier.

TMC Rolls Out New Web Site • Pegasus TransTech Expands Scanning Service • Kenworth to Offer Satellite Radio Option on New Trucks • EPA Says It May Adopt CARB Rule on Diagnostics

Price of Crude Oil Declines as OPEC May Postpone Cut • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices at Record High • FMCSA to Issue Chassis Rule This Year • Nevada to Spend $50 Million More for Colorado River Bridge • And more...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To reach the government‘s 2007 diesel emissions standards, engine manufacturers will refine changes they made to meet 2002 rules and will try to do it without a further loss of fuel efficiency, representatives told the Diesel Emissions Summit II here last week.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — High-tech equipment and software vendors who gathered here for the annual meeting of the Technology and Maintenance Council, a unit of American Trucking Associations, unveiled additional investments and new approaches to tracking and security.

AutoInfo’s Reports Higher Profits for 2003 • WSJ: OPEC Nations Expected to Keep Overproducing • Rail Intermodal Loadings Rise 10%, AAR Says • B&T Express’ O’Malley Wins TCA Award • And more...