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The challenge of harnessing technology for better productivity is shaping the content of The Maintenance Council’s annual meeting and equipment exhibition.

Lemforder Corp. announced plans to produce chassis and steering components for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses at a new factory soon to be completed in Lancaster, S.C.

When the current hours-of-service rules that govern trucking in the United States were adopted, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House, Britain still ruled the waves, New York City had three baseball teams and the closest thing to a superhighway was U.S. 1.

Next New Year’s Day, Americans may have a lot more to worry about than millennial hangovers and the Y2K bug.

The American Trucking Associations agrees with Teamsters general president-elect Jim Hoffa that bad trucks and bad truck drivers should be off the road.

For more than two decades, William R. Ewing seemed to have made the right choice. What began as a truckload and newspaper distribution operation, called Hurley Transportation Cos. in Phoenix, grew into the largest less-than-truckload carrier in Arizona.

Like many people, trucking executive Russell Gerdin and his wife Ann always wanted to give something back to the community.

The commercial driver license is under scrutiny as researchers and government officials consider giving it a tune up.

Groups involved with training truck drivers are lashing out against so-called CDL mills — schools that quickly teach students how to pass a commercial driver license test rather than providing the in-depth knowledge needed to operate safely on the road.