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Keeping in step with their parent organizations, several foundations affiliated with trucking trade groups are changing their emphasis.

The nation’s road builders want to play a part in an environmental lawsuit that could cause highways to go without repairs.

Fatalities from crashes involving large trucks dropped 1.8% from 5,398 in 1997 to an estimated 5,302 in 1998, Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater announced at a May 25 press conference.

Former congressman Norman Mineta recommends keeping motor carrier safety oversight within the Federal Highway Administration and giving it more resources, including additional senior staff.

Kentucky is the first of four states that will test a new infrared imaging system that the Federal Highway Administration says could save truckers valuable time on the road.

The May 14 court ruling that placed federal air quality standards in limbo is unlikely to have any short-term consequences for trucking, according to industry analysts.

Teamsters union negotiators threatened to call a strike if bargaining with major vehicle-transport companies doesn’t produce an acceptable labor contract by May 31.

American Trucking Associations has a Y2K problem that has nothing to do with configuring its computers to deal with the new millennium. The bug facing the organization is persuading its 14 conferences and national affiliates to develop closer ties with their bigger cousin by Dec. 31, 2000.

Four executives from major trucking companies and Teamsters’ President James P. Hoffa joined with politicians and senior Department of Transportation officials May 20 in a conspicuous show of support for efforts to educate the public about sharing the road with trucks.