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A minor accident seven years ago taught Overnite driver Tommie Hawks a valuable lesson, and it paid off last week when he was named Driver of the Year by the Safety Management Council.

The safest trucking operations seem to have intertwining dimensions of driver, machine and management, judging by the success of Viking Freight and Pitt-Ohio Express.

Chris Licht, director of safety and training for Anderson Trucking Service in St. Cloud, Minn., is American Trucking Associations’ 1998 Safety Director of the Year.

After a three-month search, United Road Services named Gerald R. Riordan, the former head of Ryder System’s consumer truck rental business, to be its new chief executive officer.

In the news this morning: House votes to limit Mexican trucks on U.S. roads; Arkansas Best reports record net income for shareholders; and Forward Air purchases LTD Express.

This afternoon's headlines: Ill. truck license middleman is sentenced; German truck maker MAN sees stable earnings, sales; and Smithway Motor Xpress reports third quarter results.

After nearly two years of setting records, sales of big trucks have shown no signs of slowing. September Class 8 sales were up 22% from the year before with Freightliner leading the way.

The Research and Special Programs Administration struck down a state fee that costs hazardous waste haulers doing business in Tennessee more than $170,000 a year.

More than 5,000 logistics professionals have gathered in Toronto for the 1999 meeting of the Council of Logistics Management to focus on strengthening the global logistics network.

North Dakota authorities are on the lookout for Kyle Bell, a muderer who escaped a prison transport bus Thursday when it stopped at a truck stop in Santa Rosa, NM.