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With two consecutive grand championships under his belt, Marty Lawson is calling it quits to the National Truck Driving Championships.

The nation’s safest truckers descend on New Orleans this week for the 63rd annual National Truck Driving Championships.

It’s a long road to the National Truck Driving Championships.

Trucking’s safety inspectors are used to judging whether a driver and his or her carrier are following the rules. This week, the tables are turned, as 51 inspectors from the United States, U.S. protectorates as well from Canada and Mexico are carefully scrutinized in their own right by stern, impartial judges.

Smarting from scads of criticism lobbed by trucking executives that shippers were not playing an active role in the debate over proposed revisions to the hours-of-service regulations, the board of directors of the National Industrial Transportation League reaffirmed its opposition to the proposed changes.

While the nation's best truckers converge in New Orleans to see who's best behind the wheel, truck inspectors from the United States, Canada and Mexico will be competing to see who's best at finding everything from an expired CDL to a loose lug nut.

It’s a long road to the National Truck Driving Championships: Preparations begin in early spring as hundreds of trucking companies of all sizes hold their competitions.

Smarting from criticism that shippers were not playing an active role in the hours-of-service debate, the board of directors of the National Industrial Transportation League reaffirmed its opposition to the proposed changes.

Nearly 400 of the nation's top truckers will descend on New Orleans next week for the 2000 National Truck Driving Championships.

A new study puts a positive spin on the environmental and safety aspects of the fossil-fuel-powered truck and its kin.