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The 1998 National Truck and Bus Safety Summit collapsed just two weeks before its scheduled Dec. 6 start in Atlanta, after its sponsor, the Federal Highway Administration, abruptly canceled its participation.

Federal Express and its unionized pilots restarted stalled contract negotiations after the pilots promised not to strike during the peak holiday shipping season.

Truck drivers, most of whom are paid by the mile, spend as much as 40 hours a week waiting and loading and unloading trailers.

enate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has weighed in on the debate over the Office of Motor Carriers.

Setting the stage for what has become an annual debate over how to fund the Surface Transportation Board, the Department of Transportation’s inspector general says it would be difficult for the board to cover the entire cost of its operations through user fees.

The landscape of the 106th Congress is beginning to take shape.

Colorado Highway Watch, launched Nov. 23 in Denver, attempts to make driving safer for everyone by enlisting truckers to be the eyes and ears of the open road.

The Federal Highway Administration’s comprehensive truck size and weight study has not been released yet, but it is already raising the hackles of one member of Congress.

Tucked into the same northwest Arkansas neighborhood as truckload giant J.B. Hunt Transport and Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s biggest retailer and a huge private fleet, P.A.M. Transportation Services may be easy to overlook.

European Union Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has issued a formal proposal to limit truck drivers to a 48-hour work week.