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A new industry-driven certification and incentives program for moving companies in Texas has the possibility of growing into a national program.

Because of a 1998 seven-fatality crash, the Pennsylvania Turnpike will build several new service plazas for motorists and refurbish old plazas to be used exclusively by trucks.

NJ Township Says Drivers Beware of Phone Ban; Broadband's a Nice Pace if You Can Get It; AT&T Wireless Could Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Airwave artners; Cargill Is Serving Up E-Commerce; Creating the Formula to Aid the Back Office.

In a ruling that has major implications for the U.S. trucking industry, the Supreme Court on Tuesday voted unanimously to support the way the federal government sets air quality standards.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to let six diesel engine makers install pollution-control shutoff equipment on their 2002 engines, three years after imposing more than $1 billion in penalties on the manufacturers for using similar “defeat devices” to beat clean air tests.

In what is a strong warning sign about future U.S. economic activity, the private Conference Board said Tuesday that its much-watched consumer confidence index for February fell 106.8, well below January's 115.7 reading.

New orders placed with U.S. factories for goods designed to last three years or more fell 6% in January, a decline more than twice what private economists had projected and another sign that the factory sector continues weak.

Axis to Track Toyotas During Delivery; Gainsco Retreats from Trucking Insurance, Restructures; and more...

Qwest to Seek Right to Expand Long-Distance Service; Intel to Acquire VxTel in $550 Million Deal, a Web-Phone Move; Automaker Drives Wireless in Plants

The slowing economy and high rate of trucking company failures in 2000 have eased the acute shortage of truck drivers — at least momentarily — and given companies a break from escalating driver-pay increases, according to several trucking executives.