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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not simply "covering its butt" with its proposed overhaul of the hours of service regulations, the agency's senior official said Friday.

In this morning's headlines: Truck industry urges more time to study proposed driver hours; Illinois license scandal spreads beyond Chicago; Norfolk Southern dedicates a new terminal in Pennsylvania; Transit Group gets waiver on bank loan covenants; and Efforts to put brakes on EPA supported.

Leaders of American Trucking Associations rejected a proposal to allow the Truckload Carriers Association to pay a monthly affiliation fee rather than require its members to join the federation. ATA also voted to drop the requirement that trucking companies be ATA members in order for their employees to belong to The Maintenance Council.

A dispute over a $500,000 contribution to American Trucking Associations’ efforts to defeat proposed changes to the federal hours-of-service regulations resulted in the defeat of the Truckload Carriers Association’s new budget.

This afternoon's headlines: Clinton says there's no "economic explanation" for recent surge in fuel costs; Volvo Trucks to lay off 70 employees; Toronto police arrest six in trailer theft ring; and more.

Trucking stocks continued their slide from 1999 through the first half of 2000, but industry executives and market analysts suggested that in the coming months companies might find a floor on which to land and may even begin to rebound.

Twenty-one of the Army’s top combat helicopters took off on flatbed tractor-trailers for a 1,400-mile trek to a retrofitting plant in Arizona, marking the first time trucks were used in the process.

Three recent business studies suggest that the fierce competition between United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. is making shippers happy and providing other carriers with an excellent tutorial on how to use electronic commerce.

A changing focus of government regulations toward safety issues will require a new approach by maintenance professionals, The Maintenance Council members were told during their summer meeting.

Alabama officials are seeking the help of trucking to get hay to drought-stricken farmers in the southeastern part of the state.