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The Department of Transportation said Aug. 9 it would set the first-ever standards for the use of performance-based brake testers on commercial trucks, which could give law enforcement agencies a major new tool in the drive for safer highways.

Teleglobe Inc. said last week it will not provide further funds for its money-losing Orbcomm Global LP subsidiary and moved to find a “strategic partner” to help staunch the unit’s losses.

Gerald J.S. Wilde has some disappointing information for government officials hoping to meet their goals of reducing highway fatalities, especially those involving big rig operators.

The show won’t go on as the organizer of Truckcan, touted as the “Biggest Truck Show in Canada,” pulled the plug on Aug. 4.

If time is money for truckers, then Illinois is helping them make a few dollars with the installation of 14 new weigh-in-motion systems.

U.S. inventories of distillates and crude oil dropped last week – the latter to the lowest level in 24 years, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

For much of 1999 and 2000, truckers have struggled to survive in the face of what seem to be endlessly rising prices for diesel fuel.

The Defense Department has filed a proposal to change its procurement policy for trucking services and will take comments on the plan into September.

Though the wildfires devouring homes and land in the Western region of the country have left most Interstates untouched, small, regional trucking companies have not been as fortunate.

American Trucking Associations and the Environmental Protection Agency will meet on Nov. 7 before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue whether EPA can set revised smog and soot standards without a detailed congressional mandate.