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Consolidated Freightways Corp. is in the midst of a“painfully slow” realignment campaign it hopes will land it in the thick of a hot less-than-truckload market.

Once a year, for one week in August, we take time out of our routines to stop and thank the men and women who drive our trucks.

Yes, I appreciate truck drivers! If it were not for them, we would all be in trouble. Almost everything we eat, wear or use comes to us by truck. While an item may have been transported by ship or rail at some time during its journey, it’s a truck driver that brings the item to the final destination where we buy it, use it or consume it.

The trucking and academic worlds came together to brainstorm over a question that has a lot of people scratching their heads: Why do accidents happen?

Filling out forms. Standing in line. Picking out equipment. Before a competitor in this year’s National Truck Driving Championships started a truck engine and maneuvered between the traffic cones and tennis balls on the field course, he or she had to undergo a series of preliminary activities.

With two consecutive grand championships under his belt, Marty Lawson is calling it quits to the National Truck Driving Championships.

Look at and listen to John A. Perfetti and you can see and hear the past, the present and the future of trucking.

California state officials and trucking lobbyists think they have fashioned a compromise over how to reform the state’s truck and trailer registration fee system in time for a Jan. 1 deadline.

A pilot program to cut construction project red tape will be tried out on a $1 billion intermodal rail and truck distribution facility in New Jersey and a $1 billion highway project in Texas, said American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials.