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The nation’s most influential trucking group has endorsed the collection of electronic data for accident analysis as long as the same rules are applied to both trucks and passenger vehicles.

Members of the Oregon Trucking Associations are hunting for cash to help pay for a $4.1 million campaign to keep their state’s weight-distance tax in the grave.

Due to an editing error, the Page 1 story on the ATA budget in the Feb. 14 issue contains erroneous information about the number of employees who will affected by the streamlining of ATA's focus to issues of national legislative and policy importance.

In the news this morning: Rockland Industrial buys truck-flooring maker Milner-Rigsby; Independent truckers in Delaware Valley vow work stoppage; and Vermont to debate routing of long trucks.

Frustrated truckers in the Northeast parked their rigs, organized protests at two state capitals and halted activity at one of the nation’s busiest seaports as the price of diesel fuel continued to soar.

This afternoon's headlines: Teamsters join fuel price protest at N.J. port; Protesting Fla. truckers get help from their friends; and Documents about Illinois' CDL scandal to be made public.

Efforts by American Trucking Associations, state trucking groups and other business and government interests could soon bear fruit in providing relief from surging fuel prices.

Teamsters and Overnite representatives this week walked away from their first bargaining sessions in almost five months with no agreements, but both sides said they would meet again on March 7.

Natso Inc., a trade organization of truck stop owners, has taken sides with the trucking industry in opposing a reduction in driving hours for big rig drivers, but not all of its' members agree.

Burning more gallons of fuel means federal transportation budget makers will have a $3 billion windfall to work with in fiscal 2001.