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When Wal-Mart Stores implemented a software program last year to automate its freight bidding and lane assignment processes, the company expected to save millions of dollars annually in transportation costs.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s high time the federal government wraps up its work on new hours of service for truck drivers. The board wants to see the regulations in place within two years.

It’s time for the federal government to let go of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

When J. Harwood Cochrane founded truckload carrier Highway Express in 1991, he was starting his “second career” with high hopes.

On April 1, the U.S. Customs Service hooked up its beleaguered Automated Commercial System to a sort of Internet-based life support.

Class 8 trucks sales maintained a torrid pace through the first four months of 1999 — more than 27% better than the mark reached at this point during 1998’s record-setting run.

Shipments of trailers and chassis in the first three months of 1999 fell short of the mark set in 1998 by nearly 14%, continuing a trend seen since the beginning of the year.

The government of British Columbia has announced plans to invest in Western Star Trucks Holdings, a venture that could result in partial government ownership of the private truck-making company in Canada.

The teeming mass of an estimated 30,000 people was a pleasant sight for organizers of the North American Truck Show, making it the best turnout in the program’s 27-year history.