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The appointment of John P. Chandler as chief executive officer of Intrenet Inc. on May 1 marked the end of a yearlong process to identify and install new top management at the transportation holding company based in Milford, Ohio.

The Intermodal Association of North America is trying to find consensus among frequently warring interests on issues as diverse as hours of service for drivers and the roadworthiness of intermodal equipment.

State police in Michigan and Illinois are testing a device that its inventors claim can be used roadside to determine if truckers are too fatigued to be driving.

Motor carriers and shippers, frequently at odds over the issue of freight classification, have agreed to work together to determine how to classify shipments of poisonous materials.

The elected leader of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance wants to build partnerships with highway safety and truck crash victim advocacy groups to help improve truck and bus safety.

The Manitoba Trucking Association is making a dent in the province’s driver shortage and groups of unemployed Manitobans will benefit from its efforts in Canada.

Regulators, researchers and interest groups will hash out federal truck size and weight issues at a workshop that runs from May 10 to 11 in Irvine, Calif.

For the third time in as many decades, the Department of Transportation is attempting to update the 61-year-old hours-of-service regulations.

Proposed hours-of-service rules from the Department of Transportation sustained serious injuries after being broadsided and then sideswiped by both irate safety advocates and disgruntled truckers.