A steep, industrywide decline in orders for new trucks has spurred Volvo Trucks North America to lay off 400 of the 725 employees hired during 1999 at its recently expanded plant in Dublin, Va.

Navistar International is looking to its corporate past to focus its identity with truck buyers, but its chairman predicts a future in which customers will see a “totally different” company.

Mild fall weather, rising inventories and a dip in the price of crude oil contributed to a 1-cent drop in the price of diesel fuel last week, after six consecutive weeks of increases.

Chevrolet and Saturn have become the second and third automakers in recent weeks to experience the wrath of American Trucking Associations over advertising that shows trucks in a bad light.

Mild fall weather, rising inventories and a dip in the price of crude oil contributed to a 1-cent drop in the price of diesel fuel this week, after six consecutive weeks of increases.

Trailer shipments in the first nine months of 1999 were down from last year, but still strong enough to be on track to make this year the second biggest in the industry’s history.

Diesel fuel prices continued their march upward last week, with the national average retail cost rising 1.5 cents a gallon to $1.304, the highest in about three years.

Trailer shipments in the first nine months of 1999 were down from last year, but still strong enough to be on track to make this year the second biggest in the industry’s history.

The U.S. Capitol’s first intermodal Christmas tree landed in Washington Nov. 29, after wending its way more than 3,000 miles, via two truck trips, a tour across the state of Wisconsin, and a journey over the rails.

The U.S. Capitol’s first intermodal Christmas tree landed in Washington Nov. 29, after wending its way more than 3,000 miles, via two truck trips and a journey over the rails.