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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration soon should have sharper teeth to go after motor carriers that are in arrears in payment of fines and penalties.

Xtra Lease will install 25,000 Terion trailer-tracking units on its rental trailers.

Logistics and trucking industry leaders are creating their own Internet-based services because they consider information generated by their network of suppliers and customers too valuable to pass on to third-party, Internet-based firms.

Leaders in the freight industry insist that the advent of new technology will not negate the need for a large and productive workforce.

Canada’s Trimac Corp. could vanish from the Toronto Stock Exchange by Nov. 30 and become a privately held firm if a proposal from the company’s dominant McCaig family comes to pass.

A private equity fund partnership has completed $37 million of investment in same-day courier United Shipping & Technology, the holding company that owns Velocity Express.

Saying thank you to a branch of the federal government could get to be a habit for trucking.

It’s a time-honored tradition in American politics. Citizens seize upon an issue and lobby their elected representatives to change the law or put in place policies to achieve their goal.

In an August incident of alleged road rage in Pennsylvania, a truck driver was charged with using his big rig to push a stalled car more than 12 miles down Interstate 83 at speeds of up to 60 mph. The trucker was said to be angry because he felt that the car’s driver had cut him off.

Jackknifing a tractor-trailer or putting a truck into a runaway spin can be great learning experiences, as long as they are done on a skid pad.