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Professional Transportation Group’s chief executive and majority shareholder, Dennis A. Bakal, is selling his stock to a Kentucky-based company that owns controlling interest in U.S. Trucking of Charleston, S.C.

Insurance coverage and rates are once again big news in trucking circles, as underwriters raise their rates for liability and cargo insurance and threaten to stop writing policies in some regions or for trucking operations with poor claims records.

For the past four years, my colleagues and I have watched the “good times roll,” both for large and small trucking companies: a booming economy, low insurance premiums, low interest rates, low fuel prices, reduced workers’ compensation costs — and until about a year and a half ago, minimal problems attracting quality drivers.

A report by the University of Michigan provides additional evidence that automobile drivers are four times more likely to be at fault when cars and heavy-duty trucks collide.

In the news this morning: Hertz ends talks to buy Ford truck leasing unit; FTC withdraws trucker's subpoena; and Liberty Mutual study finds many trucker injuries caused by jumping from rig.

Truck drivers and other transportation workers will find it harder to cheat on drug and alcohol tests if a new Department of Transportation proposal takes effect.

Federal regulations on foreign drivers are not in harmony, and an INS official says it will take an act of Congress to let Canadian truck drivers to make domestic deliveries in the United States.

Chevrolet and Saturn have become the second and third automakers in recent weeks to experience the wrath of American Trucking Associations over advertising that shows trucks in a bad light.

People who ate at the Cookery restaurant in the Flying J truck stop at Interstate 85/I-40 near Burlington, N.C., between Nov. 10 and Dec. 3 may have been exposed to hepatitis, according to local health officials.

Landstar System installed G. Tom Beam as interim president of its Landstar Ligon subsidiary in the wake a proposed unsatisfactory safety rating from the Department of Transportation.