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Volvo Truck Corp. agreed to pay a fine of $5 million and fund $9 million in environmental projects to settle claims by the Environmental Protection Agency that it violated clean-air rules only because the cost of challenging the federal agency in court would have been too expensive.

The U.S. Department of Labor will award a $1.2 million grant to the ATA Foundation to train workers who've lost their jobs in other industries to become long-haul truck drivers.

Nearly 150 trucking executives joined community volunteers on a sunny Saturday in New Orleans to paint, plant and rejuvenate their industry image.

Germany's new "red-green" coalition government has announced that it will raise diesel fuel taxes by the equivalent of 14 cents, bringing the total take to roughly $1.61 per gallon.

Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly is caught in the middle of a three-week-old strike at Navistar International's truck-customizing plant, and it's clear he'd rather be doing something else.

IBM sold its 40% shareholding in Hi-Tech Logistics Ltd. to the Britain-based international transport and logistics firm Tibbett & Britten.

Diesel engine manufacturers have agreed to pay record fines of $185 million and make significant design modifications to settle Environmental Protection Agency claims that they broke clean-air standards.

In passing the $520 billion spending bill that will keep the federal government going until next October, Congress last week left the Office of Motor Carriers sitting where it is, under the Federal Highway Administration’s wing.

Rep. Frank Wolf will not give up his campaign to move jurisdiction over trucking’s most important federal agency, the Office of Motor Carriers, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. t a Capitol Hill press conference Oct. 21, the Virginia Republican vowed to resurrect the idea next year.

The road to the 21st century for American Trucking Associations begins this week in New Orleans. ore than 4,250 industry executives and their spouses are expected to attend the 1998 ATA Management Conference & Exhibition and witness the beginning of a new era for the trucking federation.