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As Class 8 tractors sell at a record pace in order to meet heavy demand, companies that sell components to truck makers have seen their sales and earnings lifted to new heights.

In the news this morning: Rail, truck legislation remains stalled; DOT drops plans to restrict information on carrier finances; and Transit tax would help truckers, Florida officials say.

This afternoon's headlines: USFreightways stock up on Preston closure; 46 Con-Way drivers heading for Truck Driving Championships; and Federal court ruling leaves EPA wheezing.

The Teamsters have a new chief lobbyist. Mike Mathis, a veteran in the union’s government affairs department, took over as director July 28.

Apollo Management, a private investment firm with a stake in several transport companies, is helping to finance the buyout of Corporate Express of Broomfield, Colo.

A tractor-trailer driver who slammed into a state police cruiser on Interstate 65 is charged with failing to yield to a police officer under Indiana's new slow down and move over law.

Overnite Transportation Co. reported profits rose 13.7% in the second quarter of 1999, and that revenue and net income in the first six months of the year were the best since 1994.

In the news this morning: NFC, North American Van are in talks; British truckers pledge more protests; and Motor Cargo shrugs off Chicago unit shutdown.

The two major sectors of trucking are moving in opposite directions financially, with second-quarter earnings reports showing truckload carriers bouncing off a particularly grim first quarter and the less-than-truckload companies reverting to the more slender profit levels of two years ago.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says police did not violate a trucker's constitutional rights when they seized his radar detector after his truck caused a fiery 1995 crash that killed three people.