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Insurance costs are continuing to push higher, forcing trucking companies to take a harder look at loss-prevention strategies and risk-management practices, a panel of insurance experts told trucking executives here Oct. 30.

Small trucking companies will be able to buy Tom McLeod Software on the Internet through TruckersB2B.com.

The National Transportation Safety Board is likely to make a recommendation that electronic recorders be placed on automobiles sometime next year.

The current downturn in demand for new Class 8 trucks has not hit bottom yet and things cannot get better until they get worse, a trendline analysis by the market consulting firm of A.G. Edwards indicates.

Just in time for winter, here are some tips on coolants and antifreeze.

Financing, once plentiful, is becoming more difficult to obtain for buyers and sellers of used trucks.

More than 100 dealers of used commercial trucks and members of related businesses attended the first-ever convention of the Used Truck Association, held Oct. 26-28 at the Mission Inn.

Members of The Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations heard about a way to reduce emissions from diesel exhaust – with fuel to which water has been added.

The Truckload Carriers Association’s “Just in Time to Wait” panel has devised a strategy for promoting its agreement with the National Industrial Transportation League to try to cut driver waiting time at loading docks.

The definition of insanity, says Thomas L. Finkbiner, the new chairman of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver, is when people do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.