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Agricultural haulers have a special connection to the freight they haul that is not shared by a truckload carrier moving boxes of underwear one day and computers the next.

In the news this morning: Independent truckers see profits vanish as fuel prices rise; High Road extends tender offer for KLLM; Roadway Express to reorganize routes, add 500 sleeper teams; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Auto industry teams with clean-air groups to cut sulfur in diesel; survey finds U.S. gasoline price increase slowing; Las Vegas trucking show this week features record number of exhibitors; and more.

In this morning's headlines: Truck industry urges more time to study proposed driver hours; Illinois license scandal spreads beyond Chicago; Norfolk Southern dedicates a new terminal in Pennsylvania; Transit Group gets waiver on bank loan covenants; and Efforts to put brakes on EPA supported.

In this afternoon's headlines: RailAmerica will reduce debt through asset sales; Sen. Bond says OSHA's math behind ergo rule doesn't add up; Federal grant issued for green delivery trucks; and Hazardous materials movement in cities becoming more complicated.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not simply "covering its butt" with its proposed overhaul of the hours of service regulations, the agency's senior official said Friday.

Trucking stocks continued their slide from 1999 through the first half of 2000, but industry executives and market analysts suggested that in the coming months companies might find a floor on which to land and may even begin to rebound.

Twenty-one of the Army’s top combat helicopters took off on flatbed tractor-trailers for a 1,400-mile trek to a retrofitting plant in Arizona, marking the first time trucks were used in the process.

Three recent business studies suggest that the fierce competition between United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. is making shippers happy and providing other carriers with an excellent tutorial on how to use electronic commerce.

A changing focus of government regulations toward safety issues will require a new approach by maintenance professionals, The Maintenance Council members were told during their summer meeting.