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It’s time to implement the North American Free Trade Agreement as it applies to trucking.

Two-and-a-half years ago, Dawn Capalbo’s 55-year-old husband and business partner, Sam, died suddenly of a heart attack, forcing her to take over an airfreight trucking business she knew little about.

Truckers are increasingly finding themselves the targets of smuggling rings that use money and other enticements in attempts to get undocumented immigrants across the border between Mexico and the United States.

At the end of a long trip, what could be better than a thick steak, a cold beer and an evening in Juarez or Tijuana — with someone else paying the tab?

International efforts to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants are gaining steam as European and Asian authorities step up efforts to track down those who help smuggle stowaways on freight transportation.

During the fiscal year that ended in September 1998, U.S. Border Patrol agents processed 1,618 cases of human smuggling that involved more than 10,000 undocumented immigrants. During the previous year, 1,279 cases involved 6,557 immigrants.

Technology for monitoring fatigue remains unproven and is not ready for widespread use in the trucking industry as a regulatory tool, according to an Australian study.

A court ruling that upheld the termination of a trucking company employee with rheumatoid arthritis provides the industry with more clarification about what the Americans with Disabilities Act may mean to its businesses, according to an attorney who specializes in labor and employment law.

Every motor carrier will have to update its MCS-150 identification report to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration every two years instead of merely filing it once when beginning business.