The Clinton administration believes automotive engineers, the trucking industry and the military, working together, can come up with more fuel-efficient, safer trucks. The White House is expected to seek $2 billion for a 10-year development program called the 21st Century Truck Initiative.

A growing list of communications companies are offering new land-based technologies as alternatives or complements to satellites for data or voice transmissions.

A growing list of communications companies are offering new land-based technologies as alternatives or complements to satellites for data or voice transmissions.

If it’s true that the rich get richer, then Qualcomm must be living proof. The communications service provider is looking to expand its satellite-based businesses as well as ease the move into terrestrial systems for metropolitan commercial vehicles.

The Internet is going to be a money-maker for trucking vendors and high technology is no longer an issue for another day. That was the message from many of the more than 130 exhibitors at this year's MC&E.

Japanese truck makers with established markets in the United States are heading north of the border to battle for sales of urban delivery trucks in Canada.

Two companies are still trying to find out why a silicone gasket in the N-14 powerhouse from Cummins Engine Co. is incompatible with Texaco Extended Life Coolant.

Japanese truck makers with established markets in the United States are heading north of the border to battle for sales of urban delivery trucks in Canada.

Two companies are still trying to find out why a silicone gasket in the N-14 powerhouse from Cummins Engine Co. is incompatible with Texaco Extended Life Coolant.

Large trucks were involved in the lowest rate of fatal accidents ever recorded in the United States last year, with new federal statistics showing an 8.3% reduction from 1997.