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Suburban sprawl is on the political radar screen, thanks to the environmental movement and Vice President Al Gore.

Managed competition is a phrase that has cropped up more and more in the thinking of cost-conscious cities in the upkeep of their vehicle fleets.

Twice this decade, Congress passed legislation to encourage development of regional transportation policies.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices,” forcing U.S. diesel engine makers into a punishing settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.

The battle over which federal agency gets jurisdiction over truck safety took a new twist last week with the announcement of a second set of congressional hearings on the issue.

The railroad industry won’t take action to change the federal size and weight limits on trucks, as long as trucking doesn’t move to increase the allowable maximums, Association of American Railroads President Edward Hamberger said.

FedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business.

The Oregon Trucking Associations thinks the 1999 session of the state legislature offers its best chance in years to win repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax, which at 50 years may be the oldest such tax in the nation.

The ball is now in American Trucking Associations’ court. That’s the word from the 13 state trucking association executives that met in Dallas Jan. 30 to discuss concerns over the pace of ATA’s restructuring.