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The American Transportation Research Institute said it selected three project teams to evaluate mobile idle reduction technologies on heavy-duty trucks.

The National Tank Truck Carriers Association declined to take a formal vote May 17 on its future relationship with American Trucking Associations, hoping that time will allow the two groups to retain close relations.

In the multi-million dollar advertising war over the weight-distance tax repeal in Oregon, an unlikely player helped fund the move to kill the proposal: truck stops.

Trucking and transportation are a good, small example of why Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is worried about the economy at large.

Adverse community reaction and environmental impact should be addressed in considering future rail merger cases, the Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater told the Surface Transportation Board.

In the news this morning: Driver fatigue to be an issue in Philadelphia truck crash trial; Yellow Freight appoints new president; and Consolidated Freightways truck driver awarded $800,000 in discrimination lawsuit.

It's official: Maritime Administrator Clyde J. Hart Jr. is taking over as chief of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for three months, starting today.

This afternoon's headlines: Polluting truckers soon will be fined in N.H.; Freightliner hires new ad agency; and truckers find themselves caught between booming economy, increasing traffic in the Albany, N.Y., area.

Authorization for the federal highway program doesn’t expire until 2003, but trucking, railroad, labor and safety interests are already jockeying for position on the issue of longer combination vehicles.

“Effluent,” the stuff coming out of tank trailers as they are being cleaned, is about to be regulated as never before, but the haulers say the federal government is writing a big price tag based on faulty research.