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Three years ago, Richard E. Durst, president of Arctic Express in Hilliard, Ohio, sat down and calculated the cost of exchanging pallets with shippers.

House and Senate votes have stopped funding for the proposed ergonomics standards starting Oct. 1, but the workplace safety issue covering an estimated 27.3 million workers is far from being dead in the water.

The Senate intends to phase out estate and gift taxes when it meets this week, benefiting almost all small businesses, including trucking companies, said spokesmen for both the Senate and trucking.

Those involved in transferring hazardous cargo need more training, according to the the National Transportation Safety Board, and industry groups have agreed to cooperate in updating guidelines.

Parcel carriers are used to expedited deliveries and fast transit times, but United Parcel Service is buying a little more speed as an official sponsor of a Nascar racing team.

Leaders of two of American Trucking Associations’ educational councils have hammered out details of a merger plan.

Theodore J. Fick has taken on a job he knows will be tough — making Hino trucks a household name in the truck-buying community.

The International Trucking Show is not a shrinking violet, according to its organizer.

The fear of some California trucking operations that they would have to start paying their drivers overtime after eight hours of work in a day was put to rest when a July 1 deadline passed without authorities changing trucking’s exemption from state work rules.