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The American Moving and Storage Association is officially out of American Trucking Associations.

The $5.9-billion merger of Swedish truck makers Volvo and Scania may be dead, Bloomberg News reported last week.

Congressional support for releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve grew this week as lawmakers flocked to support an American Trucking Associations-backed resolution urging the Clinton administration to take the action to help stabilize fuel prices.

The Department of Transportation should triple the number of truck inspectors at the border with Mexico to ensure that unsafe vehicles don’t enter the United States, the agency’s inspector general said.

The price of diesel fuel in New England dropped by more than 19 cents a gallon for the second week in a row, helping to hold the national average price steady at $1.456 a gallon despite increases in the Midwest and West.

American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr. asked for immediate help for a trucking industry battered by soaring diesel fuel prices, in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 24.

The two-tier fee structure that favors certain trucking operations in Idaho’s weight-distance tax is unconstitutional, a state court ruled last week.

The debate over placing so-called black boxes on trucks is ready to heat up, but the dialogue isn’t likely to go anywhere until someone spells out what the devices should do.

A trickle of details has begun to appear on how the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration plans to cut the number of truck-related fatalities in half within the decade.