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The times, they are a-changing, and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is starting to change as well.

Intrenet Inc. installed a new management team at Eck Miller Transportation on April 18 after the sudden defection to a competitor of the carrier’s three top executives.

Overnite Transportation Co. reported that revenue increased by 6.4% in the first quarter of 2000, and earnings — although down sharply from a year ago — have recovered from a $13.7 million operating loss in the final quarter of 1999.

Little is accomplished in Washington during an election year, especially one when the White House is up for grabs and so is one-third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

The recent elimination of the ton-mile tax in Idaho is the best example of what is possible when a state trucking association and the American Trucking Associations work together in their classic roles as members of the federation, delivering fair and legal taxes for the people who run trucks for a living.

As promised, the California Highway Patrol charged into action, sending a strike force to hunt for Mexican trucks operating under illegal leasing agreements with U.S. carriers.

U.S. truck manufacturers and leasing companies face a challenging growth market with their expansion into Mexico.

Truckers crossing the border from Mexico have loads of stories — some believable and others somewhat incredible — about the long waits at such busy crossings as Laredo, Texas, or Otay Mesa, Calif. Now, a federal report indicates some of those tall tales are true and says government agencies are, at least in part, to blame.

Truckers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at Laredo, Texas, now have an eight-lane, $60 million bridge to ease their trip.

Business owners and residents in downtown Laredo, Texas, wanted to know what millions of trucks running through their city and waiting at their bridges were doing to their air.