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Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.

The Surface Transportation Board extended for one year the authority of motor carrier rate bureaus to set rates and the National Classification Committee to establish commodity classes for freight moving by truck.

Striking ANR Advance Transportation employees put down their picket signs last week as hope faded for one of the nation’s most enduring trucking companies.

Trucking lobbyists last week endorsed a proposal by House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) to merge jurisdiction over railroads and trucking into a single subcommittee.

Powered by an expanding domestic economy and lower fuel prices, FDX Corp., the parent of Federal Express Corp. and RPS Inc., posted better-than-expected profits in its second fiscal quarter.

Consolidated Freightways said it expects its fourth-quarter earnings to be substantially better than consensus estimates of 28 cents a share.

Penske Logistics was named lead logistics provider for Whirlpool Corp.’s regional distribution system.

Fears apparently were unwarranted that U.S.-led air strikes against Iraq would raise world crude oil costs and disrupt the record low diesel prices trucking has been enjoying.

Emerging transponder technology has allowed truckers to bypass highway weigh stations, but it has also generated a dispute over the ownership of the signals these devices produce.

Evidence mounted that the Environmental Protection Agency knew long before it lowered the boom on diesel engine makers that their engines had pollution problems and that EPA’s own certification test was so poorly designed it failed to detect illegal emissions levels.