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Truck companies that haul spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors could face having to equip their tractor-trailers with much-scorned “black boxes” and complying with strict standards to carry the cargo.

Roadway Express has until April 12 to tell a federal appeals court why it should not have to turn over employment records to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a case involving charges that the company refuses to promote blacks or hire women.

Meritor Automotive and Arvin Industries will join in a $7.5 - billion “merger of equals,” combining Meritor’s penetration of heavy-vehicle markets with Arvin’s strength in the light-vehicle business, spokesmen for both companies said April 6.

At the request of American Trucking Associations, the federal government is weighing whether New Mexico’s rules and fees for haulers of liquefied petroleum gas and compressed natural gas are legal.

Two Canadian trucking operations have bonded, with a less-than-truckload carrier acquiring a truckload firm.

In these trying times of high fuel prices, escalating intrusion into our workplaces by OSHA and a drive for tougher diesel emission rules from EPA that seems certain to add to fuel problems, it's nice to get a little good news: Trucking is getting safer.

I talk to a lot of truckers every day. In Nebraska we have a great cross-section of carriers. We have huge ones, small ones, milk-haulers and gas-haulers. You name it and you’ll see it in Nebraska. With all my members there is one issue that is critical right now, and it is fuel.

In an industry increasingly populated with electronic trading exchanges, marketplaces for intermodal services have been conspicuous by their absence. That situation, however, is not likely to prevail for much longer.

Authorization for the federal highway program will not run out until 2003, yet the Department of Transportation is developing the first surface transportation proposal of the 21st century, with emphasis on intermodalism.