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Illinois lawmakers provided relief to intermodal truckers who are often stuck with faulty equipment by passing a law that makes the owners of chassis, trailers and containers responsible for their condition.

The Teamsters union, after decades of on-and-off campaigns to organize owner-operators in the nation’s seaports, is preparing for another shot at the brass ring.

Word that U.S. authorities are pulling over Canadian truck drivers and deporting them — minus their equipment in some cases — has angered truckers north of the border.

As many as 100 combination vehicles will be on the roads this winter testing antilock braking systems equipped with the controversial PLC4Trucks integrated circuit chip, which is supposed to activate an in-cab warning light if a trailer’s ABS malfunctions.

Federal officials have a vision of a seamless transportation system throughout the Western Hemisphere in which trucks and passengers can pass from country to country without stopping at borders for customs, safety checks and any other clearance.

Louisiana transportation officials blame heavy cross-border truck traffic for the state’s No. 2 ranking for having the country’s worst roads in an owner-operator magazine.

When unionized less-than-truckload carriers negotiate their next contract with the Teamsters union, they will be represented by a new lead negotiator, Mark W. Rodgers.

After nearly two decades of work, the framers of the Multi-State Highway Transportation Agreement are still battling to give western states the right to standardize truck size and weight limits.

Members of the Western Highway Institute will set the group’s research agenda at its annual meeting in San Francisco from Dec. 5 to 7.