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Efforts to create a “best practices” guide for shippers and motor carriers are stalled, according to the two groups involved in the project.

Agricultural haulers have a special connection to the freight they haul that is not shared by a truckload carrier moving boxes of underwear one day and computers the next.

A regional California air quality agency in the Los Angeles area has banned large government bus and trash truck contractors and public fleets from buying diesel trucks and buses, instead requiring them to acquire vehicles powered by natural gas.

Two annual fees that New Mexico imposes on trucking could disappear if a lawsuit filed by American Trucking Associations succeeds.

Federal agents leveled additional charges against Florida truck driving school employees who allegedly took bribes in exchange for commercial driver licenses and handed over to state officials the names of 1,000 additional truckers whose CDLs are suspected of being tainted by the scandal.

After 28 years as the owner and operator of Acme Truck Line, Doyle Coatney has turned over the keys to the oil-field and general freight hauler in Harvey, La., to his son Mike Coatney.

Asche Transportation Services, the Shannon, Ill.-based parent of two refrigerated truckload carriers and a company that hauls municipal solid waste, said it has struck a deal with Churchill Environmental & Industrial Equity Partners to get $7 million in exchange for promissory notes that could give Churchill eventual majority ownership in Asche.

Hauling freight offers a grim but not impossible living, according to two market analysts who addressed an audience of motor carrier finance officers.

Relief could be on the way for trucking companies that can endure into the second half of this year, predicted the chief executive officer of M.S. Carriers, one of the top two dozen trucking companies in the nation in terms of revenue.

It’s nice when government officials do the right thing. We’re referring to the statement by a senior Department of Transportation official last week that it is very unlikely that a final hours-of-service regulation will be issued this year.