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This is a test. What has 86% of the nation’s freight business, annual revenue of about $350 billion, employs almost 9 million people and can’t get the mother of all bureaucracies to give it its own office?

The captains of America’s Road Team for 1999 are a diverse group of professional truck drivers from around the nation, but what they all share is a near-perfect safety record and a common desire to promote the industry.

With dual goals of growing and simplifying its internal structure, the National Private Truck Council will add membership categories and drastically cut the size of its board of directors.

Over the past few years, truckers have embraced in-cab communication advancements, disproving the perception that they are out of touch with technology. More importantly, these innovations have changed how the industry does business.

The debate over whether the federal government should adopt a special radio frequency for intelligent transportation systems may seem pretty ho-hum, but the issue has far-reaching financial and technological implications. The ripple will sweep across trucking as well as equipment manufacturers.

A federal judge’s ruling has boosted efforts by an insurance company and two state automobile assigned risk plans to recover millions of dollars in lost premiums from an allegedly fraudulent truck insurance scheme.

Arkansas Best Corp. submitted a proposal to acquire all of the stock it does not already own in Treadco Inc. for $9 a share in cash.

Ashland City firefighters captured two barges tossed down the Cumberland River by high water, as rain-swollen rivers began to fall Sunday in most of Tennessee.

The completion of Interstate 69, which will provide a direct route from Canada to Mexico through Shreveport-Bossier City, is expected to boost benefits to the region from the North American Free Trade Agreement, business leaders say.