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Airborne Freight, known for its corporate delivery service, will start sending packages to residential addresses via the post office. The company is taking advantage of a U.S. Postal Service offer of rate discounts to private shipping companies.

The truck renting and leasing industry is thrilled about proposed legislation that would prevent lessors from being held liable for accidents caused by their customers.

As the federal government begins developing a plan to increase the availability and safety of nighttime parking for long-haul truckers, truck stop operators are saying it’s a non-issue.

Truckers got their annual doses of increased inspections and appreciation June 1-5.

A handful of trucking companies and their attorney are taking on the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, alleging in a class-action lawsuit that federal investigators exceeded their authority by conducting SWAT-like “raids” against the carriers.

In less than a month, commercial truckers across the country will pull to the roadside and turn off their engines to show regulatory authorities that bias against truck drivers will not be tolerated. Or will they?

Transit Group of Atlanta announced plans to acquire three more trucking companies, bringing to 18 the number it has purchased since July 1997.

Congratulations all around are due to the industry and labor officials who successfully crafted a four-year agreement last week to keep the nation’s autohaulers carrying vehicles between manufacturing plants and dealerships.

We need to mount an aggressive agenda to address highway congestion.

Schneider National may have validated the technology that makes it possible to locate and track trailers unhooked from power units in announcing at the end of April a deal to retrofit much of its fleet of 43,000 trailers with a product developed by Vantage Tracking Solutions.