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The Maintenance Council selected officers for the coming year and honored members for their achievements during its annual meeting.

When you call and get put on hold with Commercial Driver Training Inc. in West Babylon, N.Y., you don’t have to listen to a Muzak version of “New York, New York” or a tape-looped woman swearing your call is important to her. Instead, the hold message is an upbeat sermon about how you can turn your life around by becoming a professional truck driver — if you sign on with CDT.

What does a retired champion professional truck driver do when he wants to give back to his profession?

The 13-year-old commercial driver license program is good, but it could be even better, government officials and trucking groups say.

Oregon officials are concerned that commercial driver license applicants have memorized how to perform perfect pre-trip inspections but wouldn’t know a real problem if it fell off the truck in front of them.

I2Technologies, a big player in setting up Internet trading sites, announced the formation of a marketplace for transportation.

A possible blockbuster partnership involving two Swedish truck manufacturers was rejected by regulators while another one was forged between U.S. and Italian automotive companies in Europe.

Trailers in the future may sport small wedge-shaped edge moldings or they may be enveloped in a constant stream of compressed air or a combination of both in the attempt to improve aerodynamics and fuel economy, according to discussions held at The Maintenance Council annual meeting.

Class 8 truck sales continue to outpace 1999 figures for the second straight month, but an analyst says a two-thirds drop in new orders suggests manufacturers are still working off their backlogs.