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Members of American Trucking Associations wrapped up their 2000 Management Conference & Exhibition here with one eye on the presidential elections and the other on the nation’s economy.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will give serious consideration to the American Trucking Associations' proposal for reforming federal rules governing truck drivers' hours of service, an FMCSA official told members of ATA's safety policy committee.

The national average price of diesel fuel dropped for the second straight week, this time by 1.9 cents, and an oil market analyst says November may see additional drops — perhaps by as much as 5 cents a gallon.

Freightliner Corp. is recalling thousands of vocational and severe-service type trucks with air brakes made since 1991 to repair a faulty brake pin that the National Transportation Safety Board said contributed to a fatal accident.

The glut of used trucks that is driving down prices of new and used vehicles alike is not likely to dissipate before 2004, according to used truck dealers and companies that finance used truck purchases

Mexican regulators have given their approval to the use of 53-foot semitrailers behind long-nose conventional power units on designated highways, which should open main routes in Mexico to the type of tractor-trailer configuration that is common in the United States.

Consorcio G. Grupo Dina, a leading Mexican manufacturer of heavy trucks, filed a $110 million lawsuit against Western Star Trucks over the cancellation of a major supply contract.

American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr., in a blunt speech here to members of the Truckload Carriers Association, said the relationship between the two groups would be markedly changed after Jan. 1, now that TCA has voted not to affiliate with ATA.

More money for research into particulate matter, development of a new class of alternative fuels, and a study of breathing problems are part of this year’s appropriation for the Environmental Protection Agency.