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SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it was simply a case of a father’s love of trucking rubbing off on his young son as he grew up in a tiny town about an hour’s drive north of the sprawling C.R. England headquarters here.

Less than three months after announcing it would introduce a low-cost, in-cab electronic onboard recorder, Rand McNally Co. said it was rolling out the TND 760 Fleet Edition.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The nation’s top trucking executives left a crucial round of meetings here united behind a plan to campaign for a higher weight limit and resolved to fight port regulations before the U.S. Supreme Court but without a firm proposal on driver working hours or a federal commitment to transportation infrastructure improvement.

Meritor Wabco Vehicle Control Systems and Takata Corp.’s U.S. subsidiary, TK Holdings, have signed a letter of intent to market and distribute two of Takata’s products in North America.

DeKalb County, Ga., has ordered 24 Freightliner compressed natural gas trucks, which it will use for sanitation and maintenance, said Freightliner, a division of Daimler Trucks North America.

I own a small motor carrier and drive as well. In the past 38 years, I have driven trucks all across the United States, both regional and cross country, and I am reaching the end of my career with more than 3 million safe miles covered.

It is a distinct honor to be able to represent America’s motor carriers and the employees and independent contractors working on behalf of those companies.   I have appreciated the leadership that has been provided by Barbara Windsor, Tommy Hodges and all the fine chairmen who have preceded them.

While it’s certainly hard to single out just one “most important” accomplishment at the recent ATA Management Conference & Exhibition, the new alliance with the Truckload Carriers Association on truck weights is certainly a contender.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Most trucking companies are currently doing better than the U.S. economy as a whole, and that should continue because a second, or double-dip, recession is unlikely, a panel of economists said.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Despite economic uncertainty and political turmoil, the trucking industry is poised for better days ahead, Bill Graves, American Trucking Associations president and chief executive officer, said last week.