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Readers of Transport Topics see stories every week that involve the different ways trucking companies, industry suppliers and government regulators all aim to improve highway safety. So signs of progress should not be a surprise.

As expected, 2016 has been a slow year on Capitol Hill, especially when it comes to transportation.

Even without truck and engine makers exhibiting at this year’s Mid-America Trucking Show, the event offered a good opportunity to take the pulse of drivers.

The release of the Transport Topics Top 50 Logistics Companies publication, included inside this issue, offers a unique look inside a sector that continues to rapidly expand.

Once derided as socially awkward geeks wearing pocket protectors, engineers are doing the wildest things these days, especially in truck making.

Nearly every significant rulemaking from the federal government is bound to be met with some skepticism and doubt from at least a portion of the freight transportation industry.

Truck drivers get almost as much attention as Donald Trump, even though drivers generally have a sense of decorum and don’t crave the limelight.

The adage, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is one that can sum up the discussion at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting perfectly. Except when it doesn’t at all.

A lot of mixed economic news is floating around. Recent issues of Transport Topics and any other business publications can each give you a half-dozen reasons to cringe and be afraid, while there is an almost equal number of reasons to smile and be happy.

Modern American business is a blizzard of numbers. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it, the business school mantra goes.

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