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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will lay off union workers for the first time since the road was built 58 years ago.

Trism Inc., a specialist in heavy and specialized hauling, is trying to grow its trucking business by targeting new markets and joining with other companies to provide transportation service.

In what may be a precursor of a congressional debate next year over trucking productivity, four western governors are asking for formal hearings on giving states flexibility to increase the size and weight of trucks on federal highways.

Nevada election officials declared incumbent Harry Reid the winner in an election race for the U.S. Senate that still could be challenged.

More than 2,600 shippers, carrier executives, transportation specialists and others were set to converge in San Diego this week at the 91st annual meeting of the largest shippers’ organization in the U.S., the National Industrial Transportation League.

The Arkansas Highway Commission has proposed to place tolls on Interstate highways in Arkansas to pay for repairs and improvements, but a newly assembled coalition opposed to new tolls on Interstates will do everything in its power to make sure that doesn't happen.

Federal Express Corp. said it plans to restructure its operations to make the company less dependent on its unionized pilots, who have refused to work overtime after labor talks stalemated and the company walked out of the negotiations.

An editorial in Traffic World magazine suggesting that American Trucking Associations “has not yet hit its stride” drew a spirited response from Stoney “Mit” Stubbs Jr., chairman of Dallas-based Frozen Food Express Industries.

American Trucking Associations recruited a senior executive of the Association of American Railroads to be its new senior vice president and chief financial officer. AAR Executive Vice President David B. Barefoot will begin his new job in early December.