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Truckers fighting to abolish Oregon’s weight-distance tax have been forced to concede defeat because of sky-high gasoline prices and fierce opposition from the American Automobile Association.

What if there were a way to have an endless supply of diesel fuel — a supply that did not depend on the whims of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries?

Fuel prices continued to descend from the Mount Everest-like summits seen in March and analysts predicted the trend would continue.

Truckers overwhelmed by high fuel costs are falling behind in payments on their vehicles, and finance companies are seeing an increasing number of “voluntary repossessions” in which equipment is returned to lenders because operators think they can no longer make money by driving the truck.

Truck sales are softening yet deals are harder to put together. Parts and service work is falling short of expectations, and dealer profits declined by one-third in 1999 despite a 25% increase in sales.

With the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration preparing to issue its long-awaited update of the hours-of-service regulations, a senior agency official confirmed some details of what changes the proposal is likely to contain.

A government decision to drop an investigation takes several port truckers out of immediate legal danger, but leaves their long-term efforts to organize bound in bureaucratic muck.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration underestimates the negative effects that its ergonomic rules would have on trucking, according to trucking’s largest lobbying group.

The chief executive officer of CSX Transportation and several of his top assistants were fired last week after a federal agency found problems with track safety at the largest railroad in the eastern United States.