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When it comes to relying on high-tech devices such as on-board data recorders in an effort to improve safety, many truckers need convincing.

Hours-of-service reform is so highly politicized that even Washington insiders don’t know what the final rule will look like once all the dust clears. And as for across-the-board increases in size and weight limits for commercial trucks this year, trucking companies should not hold their breath.

A steep decline in orders for new Class 8 big rigs in 2000 may be a result of a fundamental change in trucking, a transportation research analyst thinks.

The Department of Transportation made several improvements in highway safety last year, Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater said at a recent press session, and it hopes to go even further in implementing the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act enacted in December.

Transportation software pioneer Yossi Sheffi has returned to finish a job he started before the Internet showed it could revolutionize logistics and freight planning.

Rumbling from the latest proposed rail merger involving U.S. and Canadian companies got louder at the first public session of an organization created to track the progress of the Conrail breakup, which took place in June.

USFreightways Corp. has agreed to acquire Transport Corporation of America, a large publicly owned truckload carrier based in Minneapolis, for USFreightways stock valued at about $150 million.

Combined Transport has purchased flatbed truckload carrier Sunrise Express of Vancouver, Wash., in a move that is expected to increase revenue by 20% and improve its service offerings.

Hours-of-service reform is so highly politicized that even Washington insiders don’t know what the final rule will look like, said Roger Nober, general counsel for the House Transportation Committee.

New Jersey wants to resume collection of a hazardous waste hauler fee that was struck down and then reinstated by the court, and the state may collect back fees if an ATA lawsuit can't block it.