Yellow Freight System has plunged into the burgeoning business of delivering goods bought and sold over the Internet, much of it involving pickups and deliveries to private homes.
Read More →A Democratic coup at ATA? Hardly. But Democrats have been showing up in highly visible places in trucking's Republican-leaning trade organization. Like other groups at ATA's Alexandria, VA, headquarters, the Communications Department has been totally redesigned. The
Read More →U.S. trucking fleets aren't the only ones facing a shortage of qualified truck drivers. Canada needs 50,000 new truckers, according to a recent report in The Ottawa Citizen
Read More →Voters in Colorado last week approved a bond issue that will allow for the faster completion of many transportation projects, including the widening of Interstate 25 in the Denver area and north of Fort Collins
Read More →Washington state's North Cascades Highway will be closed for at least two weeks so crews can clean up fuel spilled during a tractor-trailer crash
Read More →The current hours of service regulations work just fine for less-than-truckload carriers, and do not need to be changed, says Tim Lynch, president and CEO of the Motor Freight Carriers Assn. In fact, changing the rules could be damaging to the economy, he says
Read More →Mexican truckers are operating illegally in the United States, the Department of Transportation has confirmed
Read More →Vice President Al Gore is still trying to win the endorsement of the Teamsters union in his bid for president. The Teamsters refused to endorse him last month, even as the AFL-CIO did so
Read More →A new study shows that diesel exhaust is the most dangerous cancer-causing toxin in the Los Angeles area reports the Orange County Register
Read More →Arkansas is building two new weigh stations to target truckers entering the state on Interstates 40 and 55
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