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Roadway Express driver Ulysses "Uly" Bell Jr. pulled out of an Alexandria, Va., terminal last week with a set of doubles and a very important passenger.

American Trucking Associations’ board of directors is scheduled to get a briefing from President Bush on economic and national security issues when it meets in Washington next week, ATA said Jan. 30.

Kansas Gov. Bill Graves prepared this week to take the helm of American Trucking Associations, as the trucking industry faced an array of business and regulatory challenges ranging from rising fuel and insurance costs to security concerns and the economic effects of possible war with Iraq.

The cost of workers' compensation insurance for truckers is on the rise, bringing back memories of a similar crisis a decade ago.

Every spring, Doug Lumry begins a search for trucks to haul railroad ties from one of six Kerr-McGee Chemical plants to job sites across the country.

The Teamsters union and representatives of unionized less-than-truckload freight carriers said Dec. 5 they had exchanged contract proposals after completing talks on local, non-economic issues.

Every year, Bill Brooks, director of recruiting for Covenant Transport, needs to hire between 7,000 and 8,000 truck drivers just to keep the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based carrier's 3,700 tractors moving down the road. And now that business is picking up, his job is about to get even tougher.

A year after backing out of the market for truck driver training loans, Sallie Mae, the government-sponsored lending institution, may be ready to make a small comeback.

Student Finance Corp., a company that at one time was the largest source of loans for private truck-driver training in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Nov. 4.

After years of trying to control distribution costs by negotiating ever-lower freight rates and cutting inventory levels, many shippers may be facing a new reality.