May 25, 1999 - Industry News
The Missouri Department of Transportation is planning the biggest highway reconstruction project the region has seen — a $300 million renovation of Highway 40 in St. Louis
Tags: Highways
May 24, 1999 - Industry News
Truck drivers would get a bigger tax break for the meals they eat on the road, under new legislation proposed on Capitol Hill
A bill that would revise the definition of an independent contractor is worrisome to employers and owner-operators alike
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced last week several measures he is taking to tighten up the state's licensing, including studying whether minimum training standards should be required for truckers seeking a commercial driver's license
Tags: Industry
Visiting Washington, DC, last week, Mexico's transportation secretary expressed confidence that cross-border trucking is close to becoming a reality
Peterbilt had added a pre-owned truck locator to its web site at http://www.peterbilt.com
May 23, 1999 - Industry News
There's a move in Congress to reform truck taxes by replacing three separate levies with a weight-mile tax
The fate of emissions testing in the Chicago and East St. Louis areas is in the hands of Illinois Gov. George Ryan
Close to 400 dealers, customers and vendors converged on Corpus Christi, TX, last week to attend the International Southwest Region sales fair. One of the trucks on display that caught dealers' eyes was the Diamond Back 9900i
May 19, 1999 - Industry News
Norman Mineta is wrapping up his analysis of truck safety this week, and will present his recommendations to Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater on Friday. He is scheduled to testify publicly before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on May 26
Tags: Safety
May 18, 1999 - Industry News
The U.S. Department of Labor recently ruled in favor of a truck driver who was fired for refusing to drive a tractor-trailer in bad weather
The Federal Highway Administration has announced its intention to exempt another 33 truck drivers from federal vision requirements
Kentucky will be the first of four states to test an infrared imaging device to inspect commercial trucks in a two-year pilot project
Navistar International reported its highest second-quarter earnings in more than 25 years, with diluted per share earnings up nearly 60% over the same period a year ago. Net income for the quarter ended April 30, 1999
G.I. Trucking, a less-than-truckload carrier based in La Mirada, CA, has added online tracing and tracking to its web site
Tags: Fleets
An attempt to negotiate reforms to the truck driver hours-of-service rules appears to have failed
The Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike car hauling companies if new contract negotiations aren't agreed upon before the current contract runs out May 31
Illinois Gov. George Ryan's proposal for an ambitious $12 billion public works program would have relied heavily on money raised by doubling license plate fees for passenger cars. But opposition to the fee hike has lawmakers looking at other ways to fund the program, including raising truck license fees even further than the 15% proposed by Ryan
May 17, 1999 - Industry News
The trucking industry's biggest association is applauding a U.S. federal appeals court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency's setting of air pollution rules amounts to an "unconstitutional delegation of legislative power."
A bill that will let tractor-trailers travel the same speed as other vehicles in Texas has passed both houses of the state's Legislature
The Illinois Secretary of State wants to retest more truckers who may have gotten their commercial driver's licenses in a bribery scandal
May 16, 1999 - Industry News
As talk continues to grow, especially on the Internet, about a proposed truck shutdown scheduled for July 5, the country's largest organization of owner-operators and truck drivers has spoken out against the action
The moving industry has a new tool to battle the black eye to its image delivered by so-called "rogue movers" - a certification program
A coroner's inquest into the truck-train crash that killed 11 people in Bourbonnais, IL, in March ruled that the deaths were accidental. However, that doesn't prevent prosecutors from bringing charges against truck driver John Stokes
U.S. heavy truck sales for the first four months of the year were more than 27% higher than the same time last year, putting us well on the way to another record-breaking year
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