How well you do in trucking depends on how well your customers are doing.

The lawyer who sued “Dateline NBC” for defamation and fraud on behalf of a Maine trucking company and driver Peter Kennedy said he used the correspondent’s and producer’s own words and pictures to prove his case.

For intermodal truckers, all eyes are on South Carolina, where a new law makes equipment providers responsible for maintenance and repair of chassis and trailers hauled by truckers.

The federal government wants to retain financial reporting requirements for nearly 3,000 of the nation’s largest trucking companies, but it also may give carriers a way to keep the information private.

Yellow Corp. announced it is acquiring Action Express, a less-than-truckload carrier based in Boise, Idaho, to expand its regional trucking service in the Pacific Northwest and West.

Flatbed carrier Boyd Bros. Transportation is going west. The Clayton, Ala., company, which operates in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., plans to acquire Houston-based Ruel Smith Transportation Services and a freight brokerage affiliate for $4.5 million in cash and stock.

A top Federal Highway Administration official said the agency was seriously considering a “negotiated” rulemaking to rewrite hours-of-service standards for truck drivers.

American Trucking Associations took a giant step toward unifying its splintered federation last week with a management conference that drew record attendance and generated more than a half-million dollars in political contributions.

John E. Wren is the kind of man you would miss in a crowd. Quiet and unassuming, the Minnesota trucking executive prefers to let others do the talking — that’s about to change.

Goodyear and the American Trucking Associations are building a tribute to truck drivers who risked their lives to save others.