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Anyone who wants to know how Canada’s recent fuel crisis affected owner-operators should answer the following question: What do you get when you mix high fuel prices, more than 50 disgruntled truckers, a wife and a doughnut shop?

Idling trucks eat up an average annual profit of $1,800 a unit, according to the Department of Energy.

Positioning itself to take advantage of what it believes will be continuing growth in the medium-duty truck sales market, Mack Trucks named Paul Hozza vice president of medium-duty sales and market development.

The appointment of John P. Chandler as chief executive officer of Intrenet Inc. on May 1 marked the end of a yearlong process to identify and install new top management at the transportation holding company based in Milford, Ohio.

The president of Brown NationaLease in Des Moines, Iowa, was elected the chairman of the Truck Renting and Leasing Association at the its annual conference in March.

The Intermodal Association of North America is trying to find consensus among frequently warring interests on issues as diverse as hours of service for drivers and the roadworthiness of intermodal equipment.

State police in Michigan and Illinois are testing a device that its inventors claim can be used roadside to determine if truckers are too fatigued to be driving.

Motor carriers and shippers, frequently at odds over the issue of freight classification, have agreed to work together to determine how to classify shipments of poisonous materials.

The elected leader of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance wants to build partnerships with highway safety and truck crash victim advocacy groups to help improve truck and bus safety.