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Drivers are doing just a little too much when it comes to speeding on certain stretches of New Jersey highways. State Police records show that in the last year, since the speed limit was increased to 65 mph on certain roads in the state, troopers wrote the most tickets to drivers traveling between 10 and 19 mph above the 65-mph limit.

Trucking industry veteran Paul James has purchased Hiner Transport of Huntington, Ind., from company founders 91ÊÓƵr and Marge Hiner for an undisclosed amount.

Yellow Corp. found a Midwest and Northeast anchor for its emerging nonunion regional trucking network. It is Jevic Transportation, a publicly owned regional and inter-regional less-than-truckload and truckload carrier based in Delanco, N.J.

By the end of this month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on three cases that could change who gets to drive commercial trucks in the United States.

Hours of service takes on a whole new meaning to people like Rodger Blanco and Rodney Garrison. Blanco is the owner of Ag-Mart Produce. Garrison is his maintenance and transportation supervisor. Long hours are the rule, not the exception, for both men and their equipment, said Garrison.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation and logistics professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.

Legislation that would allow states to increase the maximum truck weight to 97,000 pounds is expected to spark debate at American Trucking Association leadership meeting from June 16 to 18.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.

Allison Transmission expects its new plant in Indianapolis to reach full production speed this fall, but it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for automatic truck transmissions.

Trucking companies risk being drowned by the flood of technologies and logistics services coming onto the market. And judging by the number of exhibitors at last week’s conference of the Information Technology and Logistics Council, trucking may risk being overwhelmed by vendors.