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Truckers continued to disrupt traffic with fuel protests in several nations last week, while the European Union and the International Energy Agency continued to search for ways to deal with high fuel costs.

Oil executive David Trice walked into the conference room at the Millennium Hotel off New York’s Times Square earlier this month, looked out at investors waiting to grill him about his company’s prospects, and grinned.

By all accounts, Congress’ decision to prevent the Department of Transportation from issuing a final hours-of-service rule represents a major victory for the American Trucking Associations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may consider collapsing the categories of driving operations, but it seems unlikely to abandon a plan to require on-board recorders to track driving hours.

Although the government announcement of its plan to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has brought oil prices down, concern about distillate supplies in the coming winter persists.

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 last week.

The future of truck driving simulation has arrived, landing at the Carnegie Mellon Driver Training and Safety Institute facility in Lemont Furnace, Pa.

How does a person who has never operated a big rig handle an 18-wheeler? Transport Topics reporter Margaret Gordetsky found out as she took the wheel of Carnegie Mellon's new driving simulator.

In the news this morning: U.S. diesel fuel prices continue downward trend; House votes to impose mandatory fuel surcharges for independent truckers; House approves auto, tire safety bill; and more to come.