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More than new equipment, more than electronic commerce, more than the continued growth of the medium-duty market in the United States, the story in trucks now, for 2001 and probably for the next decade is the changing world truck order.

The California Air Resources Board gave approval to a plan that would require 1.25 million diesel engine owners to retrofit their engines with soot traps.

Republicans in Congress are threatening the future of an Environmental Protection Agency rule that would require trucks to use low-sulfur diesel fuel.

Attendees of the first-ever Connecticut transportation summit toiled to come up with solutions to the state’s crumbling infrastructure woes.

Changes to federal banking laws make it much harder for consumer groups to challenge mergers, as opponents to Citigroup’s proposed acquisition of Associates First Capital Corp. are finding out.

Trucking is celebrating its great victory in the hours-of-service debate, in which Congress delayed implementation of any new proposal for at least a year, thereby ordering the Department of Transportation back to the drawing boards.

While the nation was watching the Olympics in Sydney, Australia, American Trucking Associations scored gold here at home when the Congress ordered an official “time out” on the hours-of-service debate. This wise action by our elected officials means that the Department of Transportation must now go back to the drawing board to pursue what ATA advocates: real hours-of-service reform that delivers safer highways and a strong economy.

The proposed federal ergonomics rule puts industry on “the slippery slope to federal workers compensation,” said Laurie T. Baulig in her presentation to the former Safety Management Council on Oct. 3.

Ron Joseph, vice president of transportation, safety and maintenance for FedEx Ground in Moon Township, Pa., is the winner of this year’s American Trucking Associations Safety Director of the Year award.