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The executive agency of the European Union has cleared the way for Volvo to become the world’s second largest truck manufacturer with the purchase of Renault SA.

The American trucking industry consumes about 30 billion gallons of diesel fuel and 15 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

The Department of Transportation’s proposed rule on driver hours of service obviously is intended to reduce fatigue-related casualties and preserve the economic vitality of the trucking industry. We all would agree that no price tag can be put on safety.

At Prime Inc., we had a large project that would improve our automated billing function. We were using a system that handled only about 30% of the billing, committed too many errors and required manual re-keying.

Trucking companies weighing investments in information technology often have two choices: Buy the hardware and software and then hire the personnel to run the system, or outsource the job to someone else.

To have a lawyer or not to have a lawyer? That is the question for truckers and trucking companies — whether or not they face the need for immediate legal assistance.

Truck drivers spend long hours cooped up in small spaces, submit to drug tests and remain under constant surveillance — somebody always knows where they are.

The bad news in the Canadian trucking industry is that things have not changed much for drivers and dispatchers. The good news is that things are not worse.

Alberta saw a reduction in the number of traffic fatalities and injuries related to truck-involved crashes in 1999, according to the province’s latest Traffic Collision Statistics Report.