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As the driver pinch gets tighter and tighter, the search for workers to fill the seats of America’s trucks keeps getting wider.

Members of the Truckload Carriers Association will decide the future of their group’s relationship with American Trucking Associations on March 22.

Buoyed by the Defense Department’s success in changing the way it pays its freight bills, the General Services Administration is moving to encourage all federal agencies to adopt electronic payment and other commercial business practices.

Volvo refused to offer further concessions to European Union officials who have indicated they will bar the Swedish truck maker from taking over its rival Scania.

A federal appellate court in Boston reversed an award of $525,000 that NBC television news was ordered to pay a Maine trucking company owner, his wife and one of his drivers.

More than 6,000 comments have been logged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as public hearings are set to begin on the agency’s controversial ergonomics proposal.

Logistics.com served notice to carriers and shippers by hiring Schneider National’s former chief operating officer as its president, that it plans for its software products to dominate the digital transportation market.

The head of a new federal regulatory agency said she is awaiting the opportunity to issue several new motor carrier safety regulations this year.

Trucking companies that hire Pennsylvanians are having to resort to unusual means to conduct pre-employment screening since the state revoked access to the state’s driver records for background-check provider DAC Services.

Watkins Motor Lines, the nation’s eighth-largest less-than-truckload carrier, has formed a joint venture with Saddle Creek Corp. to offer warehousing and distribution services nationwide.