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Two late-year merger announcements in trucking made a splash on Wall Street in 2000, a year marked otherwise by stagnant or falling stock prices due to concerns that high fuel costs and transportation equities are a bad mix.

The Arkansas Trucking Association is preparing a bill that would be introduced in the General Assembly to revamp the way members of the Arkansas State Highway Commission are selected for office.

In the news this morning: Fed rate cut drives down oil prices; Forward Air buys air assets of Expedited Delivery Services; Calif. wildfires close section of I-8; and more.

Today's technology headlines: FCC may act on wireless issues this week; BellSouth experiments with GPS technology; surviving the e-commerce transition; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Volvo promotes truck executives; Sears to close 89 stores; factory orders rose in November; and more.

When George W. Bush becomes president Jan. 20, he will have someone with the highest levels of transportation policy experience at his right hand.

Diesel customers got a Christmas present in the form of a fourth consecutive drop in the retail price, but it won’t last as long as the leftover turkey.

David S. Addington, senior vice president and general counsel of American Trucking Associations, is leaving the trucking federation for a job in the new Bush administration.

Although the new millennium arrived without a hitch, it was an unsettling year for freight haulers as many of the trends that plagued trucking in 1999 — from rising fuel costs to a persistent shortage of drivers — continued to dog carriers in 2000.

American Trucking Associations said the Department of Transportation, in designing its hours-of-service proposal, ignored most of the 62 executive orders and legislative mandates in place to guide the development of sound rulemakings and underestimated the costs to the industry.