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The National Transportation Safety Board looked at trucking regulators’ response to its most urgent safety recommendations last week and found it seriously wanting.

National Tank Truck Carriers will hear from various parties in weighing whether to continue a relationship with its bigger colleague during the group’s annual meeting.

An ethics investigation that led former Surface Transportation Board Vice Chairman Gus Owen to drop his renomination bid last year sheds some light on his outside business dealings, but does not make any specific charges, according to a report.

The Federal Highway Administration is reviewing self-insurance standards for trucking companies.

Trucking has given a thumbs up to two proposals to raise licensing fees in Illinois and the thumb down to legislation that would introduce new smoke regulations in the state with the nation’s highest truck traffic.

When Wal-Mart Stores implemented a software program last year to automate its freight bidding and lane assignment processes, the company expected to save millions of dollars annually in transportation costs.

Analysts are sticking to their predictions of a stabilization in diesel costs despite a half-cent rise in the price per gallon from last week.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s high time the federal government wraps up its work on new hours of service for truck drivers. The board wants to see the regulations in place within two years.

It’s time for the federal government to let go of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.