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The future is here, and it seems to get reinvented almost every week.

While the question of monetary compensation is a major factor in the shortage of qualified drivers, it is not the only one.

Issues surrounding membership integration into American Trucking Associations poses the major challenge facing The Maintenance Council, Bill Wolterstorff believes.

At the crossroads of chemistry, physics and engineering exists a science that seems right out of Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” But this is not science fiction or alchemy. It is nanoscience.

Even with several recent advances in metallurgy and manufacturing processes, aftermarket modification of truck frame rails must follow strict guidelines to prevent damage and potential loss of warranty.

Shipments of truck trailers in 1999 totaled 275,366, almost 20% below the record 343,865 shipped in 1998, according to figures compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Census and reported by the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association.

The federal government received mixed reviews for its efforts to improve intermodal freight transportation from participants in a Transportation Research Board conference on the future of containerized transportation.

A federal commission is likely to recommend criminal background checks for people involved in moving freight through the nation’s ports.

The latest round of rail mergers has the Department of Transportation weighing a stronger “public-private partnership” with freight railroads, according to one official at the Federal Railroad Administration.