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Key congressional leaders last week agreed to a legislative plan that would delay implementation of new hours-of-service rules for trucking for at least one year, according to congressional sources.

President Clinton’s plan to pump oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve took the steam out of the fuel price express last week.

Low distillate inventories, which have worried oil market analysts all summer, continue to be a concern as the winter season approaches.

Dramatic trucker protests over fuel costs continued on three continents last week, as Europe considered tapping its own large oil reserves to help force prices down after President Clinton ordered a release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

For the second time in his nearly half a century of trucking, Bill Whim, who has covered 5 million miles without an accident, is American Trucking Associations’ National Driver of the Year.

The Safety Management Council will debate integrating the responsibility for cargo claims and cargo security issues into its safety mandate during SMC’s annual meeting, continuing through Oct. 4 in St. Louis.

Federal and state investigators say a Georgia third-party tester sold over 500 CDLs to unqualified applicants during the past two years.

Executives from trucking companies large and small offered detailed accounts to federal officials of the costs their companies would incur if the hours of service regulations proposed by the Department of Transportation took effect.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration soon should have sharper teeth to go after motor carriers that are in arrears in payment of fines and penalties.