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European Union truck drivers will be limited to a 48-hour work week if a proposal now being drafted by the European Commission in Brussels becomes law.

Volvo Truck Corp. has temporarily stopped production of heavy trucks at its Curitiba, Brazil truck plant because of concerns the global economic crisis may visit Latin America’s biggest economy next.

It has been almost two years since the freighter Bright Field slammed into the wharf adjacent to the Riverwalk mall, which abuts the New Orleans Hilton hotel on the Mississippi River. But only minor changes have been made since then to improve safety and prevent a similar occurrence.

Rep. Frank Wolf’s angry: at American Trucking Associations, at most truckers and at his own party’s leadership.

It’s safe to say that just about everything in Louisiana is hot: the jambalaya, the weather, the jazz. It turns out some of the trucks are pretty hot, too, and we’re not talking about paint jobs and chrome — we’re talking temperature.

As a boy, when he was not breaking tires or washing trucks, Chris John canvassed the Louisiana countryside with his father, who was trying to get himself sent to Baton Rouge by the local voters. Trucking executive John N. John Jr. ran for office three times before he secured a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1972.

Publisher Bob Rast talks about Transport Topics' relationship to ATA, and consolidation of information services.

James E. Sheriff of Roadway Express topped off an eventful year with one of trucking’s highest honors: the National Driver of the Year Award from American Trucking Associations.

Jason Malufau, the son of American Trucking Associations employee Toni Malufau, is the recipient of the first ATA Scholarship Fund award, a $4,000 grant for college expenses.