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Legislation that would allow states to increase the maximum truck weight to 97,000 pounds is expected to spark debate at American Trucking Association leadership meeting from June 16 to 18.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.

Trucking companies risk being drowned by the flood of technologies and logistics services coming onto the market. And judging by the number of exhibitors at last week’s conference of the Information Technology and Logistics Council, trucking may risk being overwhelmed by vendors.

Allison Transmission expects its new plant in Indianapolis to reach full production speed this fall, but it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for automatic truck transmissions.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier’s bankruptcy closure, filed a lawsuit against the company’s management to recover lost wages, vacation pay and other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

The national average for retail diesel fuel prices fell for the fourth straight week, reaching $1.059 a gallon on June 7, down from $1.065 the week before.

Trucking industry veteran Paul James has purchased Hiner Transport of Huntington, Ind., from company founders ºÚÁϳԹÏÍør and Marge Hiner for an undisclosed amount.

It takes a lot to shake up Wall Street analysts, especially at the end of a long day of talk about the state of the nation’s railroads. American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr. managed to jar participants at a June 3 rail conference out of their late afternoon malaise with his call for railroads to consider allowing trucking access to their tracks — that is, let trucking companies run trains.

There were ominous sounds coming out of railroad circles in the East last week, as Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp. went about digesting the routes and equipment that formerly comprised Conrail — for which they paid some $10.2 billion. Depending on which morning newspaper you read, things were either going okay (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press) or things were in danger of falling apart (Washington Post).

Haulers of agricultural products gathering for their annual conference will be focused on the same issue consuming the rest of the industry -- the fate of the hours-of-service regulations.