Even though the summer travel season has come to end, the American Automobile Association says don't expect too much relief from traffic congestion, thanks to highway construction projects
Read More →Twenty years of dodging recalls has driven Mitsubishi Motors into the arms of DaimlerChrysler
Read More →OPEC has agreed to increase production in order to drive down fuel prices, but owner-operators still are pressing for legislative relief. In a letter last week to President Clinton, Jim Johnston, president of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Assn., pleaded for leadership on a bill to create a national fuel surcharge. The surcharge is needed to forestall a catastrophe for small-business truckers as fuel prices rise this autumn, Johnson wrote.
Read More →The second group of six qualifiers for the Stars and Stripes truck show series championship were named Saturday at the Iowa 80 truckstop in Walcott, Iowa
Read More →Through a unique partnership with an electricity supplier, giant refuse hauler Waste Management has come up with a cost-effective way to convert trucks to cleaner natural gas fuel
Read More →The American Trucking Associations has filled two key positions in its environmental and safety regulatory operations
Read More →After the National Transportation Safety Board held its series of truck and bus safety hearings last year, it decided to look further into the issue of truck parking. The board last week issued several recommendations to help address the parking shortage, which is a key issue in the debate about truck driver fatigue
Read More →Entrepreneur Ben Gordon says the conventional Internet wisdom -- that the intermediary is dead -- "is dead wrong." Gordon, president of Web startup 3PLex.com, told Truckinginfo.com that for the past six months to a year, transportation people
Read More →French truckers ended their blockades of oil refineries and depots yesterday after six days of protests against high fuel prices
Read More →North Dakota state Republican congressional candidate John Dorso, a former owner of a trucking and trailer sales business, recently concluded his "Road to Victory" truck tour. Traveling the road in his 1994 International cabover, a 1998
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