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For the Chinese, 1999 is the year of the rabbit. For the National Transportation Safety Board, this is the year of heavy vehicle safety.

When the Industrial Truck Association meets this week in Washington, D.C., its members will be basking in a victory.

Cargo theft is big business. The FBI estimates that $6 billion in goods is stolen from trucks, trains, ships and planes each year.

Additional indictments were handed down in a bribery scandal involving commercial driver licensing in Illinois that has now spread to the state transportation department.

Legislation to eliminate a visa check system at international border crossings for trucking has been introduced in both houses of Congress.

Trucking was the eighth-largest contributor to members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the last Congress.

American Bulk Commodities, the parent of bulk haulers R&J Trucking and John Brown Trucking is shifting its focus to the South following the acquisition of Alabama-based Southern Haulers.

By the middle of 2001, all truck trailers will glow in the dark as the result of a federal mandate, in a bid to reduce side-impact accidents between cars and trucks.

Tom Berg’s March 29 article, “Trailer ABS Warning Passes Test, But Hurdles Remain” [p. 17], explained why it is very important for the PLC4TRUCKS and multiplexing discussion to continue, because the entire industry will need to address trailer communication and control issues in the next few years.

Gerry Hall is no trendsetter. By selling his GMC-Isuzu-Volvo-Mack truck dealership to RDO Equipment Co. of Fargo, he did what he thought was best for his situation.