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The Canadian Trucking Alliance said if Michigan and other states don’t abandon plans to impose business taxes on foreign truckers, the association might seek similar levies on U.S. drivers who cross the border.

The vision of the Truckload Academy started to take shape during an organizational meeting of 50 carriers, suppliers and educators held June 15 by the Truckload Carriers Association. TCA staff outlined a draft curriculum and described ways to deliver education and training programs to trucking personnel, ranging from drivers to chief executives.

Yellow Corp. found a Midwest and Northeast anchor for its emerging nonunion regional trucking network. It is Jevic Transportation, a publicly owned regional and inter-regional less-than-truckload and truckload carrier based in Delanco, N.J.

By the end of this month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on three cases that could change who gets to drive commercial trucks in the United States.

Hours of service takes on a whole new meaning to people like Rodger Blanco and Rodney Garrison. Blanco is the owner of Ag-Mart Produce. Garrison is his maintenance and transportation supervisor. Long hours are the rule, not the exception, for both men and their equipment, said Garrison.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation and logistics professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.

Legislation that would allow states to increase the maximum truck weight to 97,000 pounds is expected to spark debate at American Trucking Association leadership meeting from June 16 to 18.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.

Allison Transmission expects its new plant in Indianapolis to reach full production speed this fall, but it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for automatic truck transmissions.