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In a potentially far-reaching decision, the Internal Revenue Service has determined that a Southern California drayage operator classified a truck driver as an independent contractor rather than an employee.

When the economy deteriorates, the use of preventive maintenance at trucking companies — including programs involving tires — sometimes follows suit, regardless of climate conditions such as the coming of winter.

American Trucking Associations last week asked the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to facilitate the use of consolidation bins in transporting small packages of hazmat materials.

The evidence continues to mount that 2011 will turn out to be a pretty good year for the U.S. economy in general and for trucking in particular.

The evidence continues to mount that 2011 will turn out to be a pretty good year for the U.S. economy in general and for trucking in particular.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration now aims to publish its revisions to the hours-of-service rule and a proposed expansion of its electronic data recorder requirement by the end of the year, the agency’s head said last week.

Booming dry-van sales led to a surge in U.S. trailer registrations in the third quarter, as buyers registered 35% more new trailers than in the corresponding period of last year, R.L. Polk & Co. reported.

WASHINGTON — Trucking industry executives, citing projected U.S. population growth and growing freight demand, said that increasing the productivity of trucks by making them larger or heavier was necessary.

Swift Holdings Corp., the new corporate name for carrier Swift Transportation, said it plans to raise as much as $1.01 billion this month in an initial public offering of shares that could be the largest ever for a truckload fleet.

In a slow retreat from the two-year high it reached in November, the U.S. retail diesel price average slipped again last week, falling 0.9 cent to $3.162 a gallon, the U.S. Department of Energy reported after its weekly survey of filling stations.