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Hadley Auto Transport, a family-owned business started in 1931, has been sold to Hidden Creek Industries, a Minneapolis-based investment management firm with interests in a variety of automotive and truck equipment suppliers.

Amid all the millennium hype, which has generally absorbed and replaced the seemingly endless Y2K hype, a few moments of reflection reveal that 1999 was a very busy and productive year for trucking.

Walter B. McCormick Jr., president of the American Trucking Associations, recently called upon Edward R. Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads, to meet with him to discuss freight transportation productivity.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general recommends using recording devices to assist in efforts to improve surface transportation safety, which he says needs to remain a top priority at the agency.

The largest railroad in Canada and the second-biggest in the United States announced a $6 billion merger plan that would crown a new king in North American rail freight transportation with a stock market valuation in excess of $19 billion.

More than two months into a strike by the Teamsters union, Overnite Transportation Co. says its freight operations are close to normal and that it is operating at an all-time record for on-time deliveries during December.

Companies and agencies that have made Y2K preparations will face the moment of truth at midnight Dec. 31, and unless someone's bluffing or badly miscalculating, disruptions from computer snafus related to the much-anticipated glitch will be minimal.

When she started trucking over the road nearly 30 years ago, Dorothy “Dottie” Bryant figured she was probably one of the first of her gender to drive a big rig for a living. But she later discovered that at least one woman had preceded her — and by several decades.

Don't expect Congress to act on proposals to increase truck sizes and weights in 2000, Rep. Nick J. Rahall II said.