There will be a price to pay for increased security in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but it’s not clear who’s going to pay it, according to panelists at the Transport Topics Management Outlook Forum.

A long-held belief of highway users and transportation engineers is that roadways in Western Europe are better built than those in the United States.

With lawmakers grappling with tough security and economic issues, a push by the trucking industry for tax relief appears to be on legislative hold.

In 1951, David G. McCorkle began hauling silage for $20 a day. Because he drove a truck with a 15-foot bed when most other trucks had only 12-foot beds, he figured the extra capacity should be worth a bit more. So he asked the shipper for $21.75 a day.

Even before being confirmed last week as American Trucking Associations’ chairman for 2001-02, David G. McCorkle was already at work on one of his top priorities — re-forging relationships with the state trucking associations that some felt had been strained by the restructuring of the national federation.

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, state trucking association executives were worried about the effect a slowing economy would have on tax collections, the future funding of roads and any temptation lawmakers might have to boost trucking’s share of the ante.

ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. — Although some economists are predicting a strong rebound next year, due in part to increased defense spending and federal tax cuts, the chairman of Overnite Transportation Co., a billion-dollar less-than-truckload company, believes that is an overly optimistic forecast.

ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. — The war on terrorism may make it easier for management to investigate the backgrounds of new hires and monitor employees at work, according to legal experts attending last week’s meeting of the North American Transportation Employee Relations Association.

New security issues and long-standing concerns about fuel costs and driver shortages will top the agenda at American Trucking Associations’ 2001 Management Conference & Exhibition Oct. 28-31 in Nashville, Tenn.

It sounds like a simple request: How much would a trucking company charge to haul freight from point A to point B? For many carriers, however, the answer is not so simple.