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Arkansas Best Shows Improved 4Q Results • Celadon Adjusts '03 Guidance After Mexico Decision • MAN AG Reports 6% Increase in Sales • And more ...

WASHINGTON — The head of one of the nation’s largest trucking companies said increasing truck size and weight should be the industry’s biggest priority when Congress takes up its new highway spending plan this year.

WASHINGTON — Intermodal freight hauls should replace coal as the top revenue generator for the nation's largest railroads by the first quarter of 2004, said a top rail industry executive.

Caterpillar Announces EPA Certification of ACERT Engine •U.S. Refiners Face Output Cuts From Venezuela • CSXT Inks Deal with Spanish Company • Consumer Confidence Declines to Start '03 • And more ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that before Mexican trucks can operate in the United States, the federal government must conduct further environmental review.

The responsibility for leading American Trucking Associations passed this week from William J. Canary to Bill Graves. ATA transferred from one professional and competent set of hands to another.

Although the next round of tougher diesel emissions standards will not take effect until 2007, the engine making industry is actually facing a tight schedule if it wants to design and build new engines in time to avoid a repeat of last year’s buy-ahead-and-bust cycle, trucking experts said.

Despite sensationalistic reports to the contrary, Mexican truckers will not deprive Americans of safe highways or clean air. Rather, they will improve cross-border freight flows while relieving the U.S. driver shortage.

Philly Fed Report Shows Slower Growth • Low Crude Stockpiles Threaten Regional Fuel Supplies • Calif. Officials Underestimated Emissions • Government to Fund Coal-to-Diesel Project • And more ....

Bill Graves, who on Monday stepped down after two terms as governor of Kansas, officially took office Wednesday as chief executive officer of American Trucking Associations, replacing William J. Canary.