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Trucking companies weighing investments in information technology often have two choices: Buy the hardware and software and then hire the personnel to run the system, or outsource the job to someone else.

To have a lawyer or not to have a lawyer? That is the question for truckers and trucking companies — whether or not they face the need for immediate legal assistance.

Truck drivers spend long hours cooped up in small spaces, submit to drug tests and remain under constant surveillance — somebody always knows where they are.

The bad news in the Canadian trucking industry is that things have not changed much for drivers and dispatchers. The good news is that things are not worse.

Alberta saw a reduction in the number of traffic fatalities and injuries related to truck-involved crashes in 1999, according to the province’s latest Traffic Collision Statistics Report.

DuPont Co. sued Norfolk Southern railroad because of service difficulties in the wake of NS’s purchase of a part of the former Conrail.

Air pollution generated by vehicle traffic kills thousands of people every year in Europe, according to a study published in the Sept. 2 issue of the British medical journal Lancet.

A plan for TruckersB2B to bring together a host of carriers for volume-buying discounts has yet to hit pay dirt as parent-company Celadon Corp. reported $4.7 million in losses this fiscal year.

Trucking’s largest lobbying group asked President Clinton to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve on to the market “to protect a strong U.S. economy and the men and women who work hard every day to deliver it.”

Surging oil prices could bring catastrophic bankruptcy rates to trucking within nine months, according to a stock analyst who has studied the historic correlation between changes in fuel prices and company failures.