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The trucking industry is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the talks between the nation’s automobile haulers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. While the results of those talks are important on their own, the negotiations have taken on even more significance because they represent the first major test of the union’s new leader, James P. Hoffa.

Hauling freight for oil and gas exploration companies used to be the mainstay of Acme Truck Line. But years of cyclical booms and busts demonstrated that it needed other sources of revenue to continue growing.

Trucking was the eighth-largest contributor to members of the Senate Commerce Committee over the last six years, according to campaign finance reports.

Freight was flowing less than two days after a tornado flattened an American Freightways terminal in Oklahoma City.

The Mother’s Day crash of a charter bus in New Orleans prompted Rep. Frank R. Wolf to redouble his efforts to clean up the federal agency that monitors truck and bus safety.

Efforts to rein in one of the main abuses in the commercial driver licensing program have shown a measure of success, according to the author of a study.

A legislative proposal will put pressure on the United States to bring truck weight more in line with its border neighbors, according to a state official.

Fears of a Teamsters strike against major carhauling companies grew as the May 31 contract deadline approached.

American Trucking Associations has a Y2K problem that has nothing to do with configuring its computers to deal with the new millennium. The bug facing the organization is persuading its 14 conferences and national affiliates to develop closer ties with their bigger cousin by Dec. 31, 2000.