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Association restructuring is nothing new for David B. Barefoot, chief financial officer of American Trucking Associations.

At the request of trucking trade groups, the Office of Motor Carrier Safety is rethinking its policy of imposing federal hours-of-service rules on intrastate drivers after any interstate service.

As the Teamsters’ nationwide strike of Overnite Transportation Co. ended its first week, the union and the company continued to issue sharply differing accounts of how effective the picketing has been in disrupting the carrier’s business.

Less-than-truckload carriers are better able to maintain earnings in the face of rising fuel prices than truckload carriers, according to a securities analyst’s report issued just as the price of diesel fuel climbed slightly after two weeks of decline.

American Trucking Associations has asked the federal government to wait until the National Motor Carrier Administration is in place before moving ahead on hours-of-service changes.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues to tighten its regulatory fist around trucking.

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That was the attitude of Glenn F. Brown when he broke the world land speed record for 3-axle heavy-duty trucks at the 1999 World Finals at Utah’s Bonneville salt flats Oct. 21.

Transport Investments Inc., a Pittsburgh-based holding company, agreed to acquire the trucking assets of Aetna Freight Lines of Warren, Ohio.

Federal figures released last week show that during 1998, U.S. truckers had their safest year in history, as their fatal accident rate declined to 2.33 crashes per 100 million miles driven.