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Motor carrier executives will hear directly from five of the industry’s major vendors and the federal government’s chief truck safety regulator at American Trucking Associations’ annual Management Conference & Exhibition, the trade group said.

As health-care costs continue to skyrocket, motor carriers said they are exploring a multitude of ways to mitigate costs that are impinging on profitability.

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In a report showing that inflation is not currently a threat to the economy, the Labor Department said Friday its producer price index declined 0.1% in August, as the cost of vehicles and gasoline fell.

Third-party logistics providers said they are continuing to invest in new software and hardware systems to remain competitive with rivals, to better serve their shipper customers and to increase their own profitability.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. hen I was a child, many of the books I read ended with the words “and they lived happily ever after.” If only the story of outsourced logistics relationships could be that simple.

California lawmakers passed a bill that would require all trucks entering the state to meet federal emissions standards that were in effect the year the truck was manufactured and drivers would have to provide evidence that the truck meets those standards.

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Truckload carriers could see demand outpace their hauling capacity by as much as 25% during the peak shipping season now under way, a transportation analyst warned, as freight industry officials said they were facing a period in which they could be starved for capacity.

The California Legislature passed a bill that officials said would prevent shipping lines from unilaterally terminating business relationships with intermodal trucking companies.