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The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.

Non-union employees of Freightliner Corp. will each receive a $1,000 bonus as well as a raise, the company announced April 1.

How many U.S.-based trucking companies are there? What do they haul? What do drivers earn, and how profitable is the industry?

The Cummins Signature 600 engine received the 1998 Technical Achievement Award from the Truck Writers of North America.

TT File PhotoThe nation’s harshest trucking critic and the largest state trucking association have joined forces to oppose plans to open four states to increased truck traffic from Mexico until a variety of concerns are met.

Additional indictments were handed down in a bribery scandal involving commercial driver licensing in Illinois that has now spread to the state transportation department.

In a meeting with trucking’s chief regulator last week, ATA Chairman John Wren pressed the Federal Highway Administration to move quickly on updating hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.

Teamsters President Jim Hoffa visited Overnite’s Atlanta terminal April 8 and challenged company chairman Leo H. Suggs to debate the merits of an employee benefits package.

Shareholders of Aeroquip-Vickers have overwhelmingly approved the company's purchase by Cleveland's Eaton Corp for $1.7 billion.