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A sharp rise in insurance rates is forcing truck companies to accept more risk as well as incur higher operating costs. The problem could reach crisis levels before long, some observers say, and may even push some truckers out of business.

In-truck computers to monitor driver hours were endorsed by some of the largest trucking companies in the country when the Arkansas Trucking Association voted last week to support the proposed federal mandate for “black boxes” on trucks.

Three major trailer leasing companies are spending millions to put conspicuity tape on the trailers and containers used by their customers before a June 1, 2001, federal deadline.

As if a chicken’s life weren’t tough enough — cooped up, pecking at seeds, people taking your eggs — now poultry in Canada has to go out and work for a living.

Last winter’s stark scene of high fuel prices and truck protests outside Capitol Hill have left some members of Congress hoping that history doesn’t repeat itself this coming season.

A proposal that would require fuel surcharges to benefit independent truckers will get a June 8 hearing on Capitol Hill.

In this mornings headlines: Hearings begin on the controversial hours-of-service rule change; Low extends offer for KLLM; Ports strain to keep up with Asian imports; Trucking company owner sentenced in arson plot; G.I. Trucking implements large fleet expansion; and Nissan truck-building unit reports past-year loss.

The National Transportation Safety Board says part of the truck parking problem is that when all the usual spaces are filled, drivers do not know where to go after a day on the road.

William “Jack” Liles III is on the threshold of losing KLLM Transport Services to Robert E. Low of Prime Inc., as Liles’s financing to buy the company has fallen through.