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Those involved in transferring hazardous cargo need more training, according to the the National Transportation Safety Board, and industry groups have agreed to cooperate in updating guidelines.

Leaders of two of American Trucking Associations’ educational councils have hammered out details of a merger plan.

Theodore J. Fick has taken on a job he knows will be tough — making Hino trucks a household name in the truck-buying community.

The International Trucking Show is not a shrinking violet, according to its organizer.

The fear of some California trucking operations that they would have to start paying their drivers overtime after eight hours of work in a day was put to rest when a July 1 deadline passed without authorities changing trucking’s exemption from state work rules.

All drivers in Indiana are directed to give road workers a wide berth or face fines of up to $10,000 established by a new law.

Simon Transportation will remain a family business for now as Jerry C. Moyes announced June 30 that he would let his takeover tender offer expire unfulfilled.

In case the Department of Transportation didn’t get the message in the first seven field hearings on its ill-conceived plan to revise trucking’s work rules, it got another earful last week.

After more than 60 years, everyone who knows trucking would agree that the hours-of-service regulations need to be carefully analyzed and updated to meet the demands of life in the 21st century.