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PNV Inc. is America Online’s trucking site of choice, now the Internet giant has a stake in the trucking Web portal and entertainment firm.

Thirty-four truck drivers will receive waivers from vision requirements from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which also proposes to exempt 62 more.

The battle to improve trucking’s image continued as Shell Oil Co. launched a new advertising campaign educating motorists on how to share the road with trucks and Amtrak ran a newspaper advertisement portraying truck drivers as dangerous.

The times, they are a-changing, and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is starting to change as well.

Intrenet Inc. installed a new management team at Eck Miller Transportation on April 18 after the sudden defection to a competitor of the carrier’s three top executives.

Overnite Transportation Co. reported that revenue increased by 6.4% in the first quarter of 2000, and earnings — although down sharply from a year ago — have recovered from a $13.7 million operating loss in the final quarter of 1999.

Little is accomplished in Washington during an election year, especially one when the White House is up for grabs and so is one-third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

The recent elimination of the ton-mile tax in Idaho is the best example of what is possible when a state trucking association and the American Trucking Associations work together in their classic roles as members of the federation, delivering fair and legal taxes for the people who run trucks for a living.

As promised, the California Highway Patrol charged into action, sending a strike force to hunt for Mexican trucks operating under illegal leasing agreements with U.S. carriers.