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Buoyed by the Defense Department’s success in changing the way it pays its freight bills, the General Services Administration is moving to encourage all federal agencies to adopt electronic payment and other commercial business practices.

A federal appellate court in Boston reversed an award of $525,000 that NBC television news was ordered to pay a Maine trucking company owner, his wife and one of his drivers.

More than 6,000 comments have been logged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as public hearings are set to begin on the agency’s controversial ergonomics proposal.

Logistics.com served notice to carriers and shippers by hiring Schneider National’s former chief operating officer as its president, that it plans for its software products to dominate the digital transportation market.

The head of a new federal regulatory agency said she is awaiting the opportunity to issue several new motor carrier safety regulations this year.

Trucking companies that hire Pennsylvanians are having to resort to unusual means to conduct pre-employment screening since the state revoked access to the state’s driver records for background-check provider DAC Services.

Watkins Motor Lines, the nation’s eighth-largest less-than-truckload carrier, has formed a joint venture with Saddle Creek Corp. to offer warehousing and distribution services nationwide.

Despite its fondness for records and similar milestones, the nation took little note that diesel fuel prices hit their highest mark in history last week.

There is still a lot of talk around the industry about the Department of Transportation’s announced “national initiative” to cut the number of truck-related fatalities in half within the next 10 years. While I applaud this initiative, I continue to read with amazement how the “good guys” [the Department of Transportation] are going to audit, fine and penalize the “bad guys” [trucking industry] into some kind of safety Nirvana.