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Larger trucks up to 97,000 pounds - if outfitted with a sixth axle - will not only be safer but will also boost the nation's productivity.

The evolution of warehousing is causing that industry’s relationship with trucking to change, according to Mike Jenkins, president of the International Warehouse Logistics Association.

The breakneck pace of Class 8 truck sales continued in June, producing midyear figures that are 29.4% higher than the record year of 1998 and, if duplicated in the second half, would total more than 255,000 units for 1999.

Mention Dee Howard and his Power Center Steering System almost anywhere in the trucking industry — especially on the manufacturing and maintenance sides — and you get a chuckle.

D.U. "Dee" Howard describes himself as the “trucker’s best friend.” His detractors say he is a man with an “elegant solution in search of a problem.”

Two high-profile truck-train accidents at railroad grade crossings in recent months have heightened congressional interest in rail safety, leading one lawmaker to propose legislation to address the problem.

Refrigerated freight carriers got a frosty forecast about their segment of trucking from two analysts at a meeting conducted by a unit of the Truckload Carriers Association.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters put another of its locals in trusteeship following a bitter, month-long strike against an Iowa Beef Processors slaughterhouse in Walla Walla, Wash.

The service problems that bedeviled Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads after the division of Conrail lines are slowly but steadily being solved. But one of their biggest customers disagrees.