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You’ve just got to hand it to those railroad folks: Just about the time that a lot of us are suffering from the frayed nerves and short tempers that go along with the end-of-the-year festivities, they pull a prank that is obviously designed to bring peals of healing laughter from shippers and government regulators, and men and women of good cheer, everywhere.

As this century draws to a close, it is nice to be able to look back and say that our work allows us to enter into the 21st century with safer roads.

The Truckload Carriers Association is looking for help in its effort to reduce problems at loading docks.

While many of his colleagues were enjoying more relaxing vacations during the congressional recess, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell spent a week in the cab of a big rig, working on docking, backing and parking.

The Department of Transportation said it will not fully open this country’s southern border to commercial truck traffic from Mexico with the arrival of the new year.

A legislative panel approved a plan that would expand the roads 53-foot trailers can travel in Vermont.

The rail industry’s safety record for 1999 is on track to improve from 1998, despite safety concerns raised by rail mergers, according to the Federal Railroad Administration’s top executive.

The chairman of Gainey Transportation Services said it is time for truckload carriers to “stop talking cents, and start talking percent,” as he announced a 5% across-the-board rate hike.

Regulators are working to breathe life into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as 1999 comes to a close.

The owner of Charger Inc. is calling it quits two years after buying the former J.B. Hunt Transport flatbed division for $40 million.