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Consolidated Freightways named a 31-year veteran employee as chief executive officer May 8, ending a three-month search to fill the position.

On March 15, 1999, Bourbonnais, Ill., an out-of-the-way town on the Amtrak line outside Chicago became synonymous with catastrophe. If the story ended there with the collision between the truck hauling steel and the Amtrak passenger train, it would indeed be devastating. But Operation Lifesaver and the American Trucking Associations are drawing upon their nearly 30-year partnership to write another ending. A new safety video, “Your License or Your Life,” is being released nationwide, alerting professional drivers anew to the dangers around the rails.

“Effluent,” the stuff coming out of tank trailers as they are being cleaned, is about to be regulated as never before, but the haulers say the federal government is writing a big price tag based on faulty research.

A plan to build a second span for the Peace Bridge, linking Buffalo, N.Y., and Canada on a heavily-used truck route, were dealt a blow recently when a politically appointed panel on the U.S. side rejected the bi-national proposal.

The bus industry opposes its inclusion in the proposed rewrite of the hours-of-service regulations governing commercial motor vehicle drivers.

Better trip planning would allow truckers to avoid creating a safety hazard by parking illegally on the side of busy highways, according to the national organization representing 1,169 travel plazas and rest stops.

So what exactly are the differences between truck driver and bus driver fatigue?

The year is 2001. It is summer and the commute to work has doubled. Cellular telephones are drawn from hips and everyone is talking about why, at this time of day, roads swarm with construction activity.

Hours-of-service rules by the Department of Transportation, controversial in most quarters, could slam dunk doughnut sales, a bakery trade group claims.