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Mention Dee Howard and his Power Center Steering System almost anywhere in the trucking industry — especially on the manufacturing and maintenance sides — and you get a chuckle.

Two high-profile truck-train accidents at railroad grade crossings in recent months have heightened congressional interest in rail safety, leading one lawmaker to propose legislation to address the problem.

Refrigerated freight carriers got a frosty forecast about their segment of trucking from two analysts at a meeting conducted by a unit of the Truckload Carriers Association.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters put another of its locals in trusteeship following a bitter, month-long strike against an Iowa Beef Processors slaughterhouse in Walla Walla, Wash.

The service problems that bedeviled Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads after the division of Conrail lines are slowly but steadily being solved. But one of their biggest customers disagrees.

Aerodynamic improvements have reduced splash and spray from trucks, but the American Trucking Associations says no current or future technology is likely to eliminate the problem.

Legislators are seeking a way out of a budget snarl that's hindering efforts to end their more than six-month session, and a bill killing the state's weight-mile tax hangs in the balance.

A parked truck carrying leftover fireworks exploded in a Canadian industrial park Tuesday morning, spraying shrapnel for a block and sending rockets off in all directions.

In the news this morning: N.J. truck rules may be revised; FHWA proposes graduated CDL plan; and BNSF, Dana launch joint venture to transport chemicals.