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Overnite last week rejected attempts by the Teamsters union to reopen negotiations on a benefits package both sides accepted in 1998.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration no longer will leave it up to trailer manufacturers to determine where to place identification and clearance lamps.

A truck driver arrested for buying political fund-raising tickets in exchange for commercial driver licenses is the latest casualty in the Illinois licensing scandal.

TT File PhotoMembers of the moving industry are cleaning up their act to ward off more heavy-handed scrubbing from federal regulators and the news media.

The Clinton administration is working with Mexico to assure the safety of Mexican trucks operating in the United States, Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater said.

A trucking company owner and a truck driver have been indicted in connection with an accident that killed a couple from North Plainfield, N.J.

Diesel fuel prices continued to rise last week, making another leap of about 3 cents a gallon, and are closing in on thresholds that may trigger fuel surcharges in freight contracts.

The nation’s harshest trucking critic and the largest state trucking association have joined forces to oppose plans to open four southwestern states to increased truck traffic from Mexico until a variety of safety concerns are met.

Almost half of truckload carrier executives surveyed by Transport Topics during the Truckload Carriers Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas think federal and state truck safety laws need significant improvement.

The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.