The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is looking for a few good men or women to fill some top slots in the 3-month-old unit within the Department of Transportation.

The battle to improve trucking’s image continued as Shell Oil Co. launched a new advertising campaign educating motorists on how to share the road with trucks and Amtrak ran a newspaper advertisement portraying truck drivers as dangerous.

The times, they are a-changing, and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is starting to change as well.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to block any openings in truck size and weight laws that long rigs could roll through.

Beer wholesalers want to give states the right to issue commercial licenses to truck drivers operating in intrastate commerce.

The battle to improve trucking’s image continued as Shell Oil Co. launched a new advertising campaign educating motorists on how to share the road with trucks.

The Department of Transportation unveiled its long-awaited overhaul of the federal hours of service regulations Tuesday, calling for 14 hours on-duty followed by 10 hours off duty. The proposal also calls for electronic data recorders.

Beer wholesalers want to give states the right to issue commercial licenses to truck drivers operating in intrastate commerce.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to block any openings in truck size and weight laws that long rigs could roll through by calling for an extension of a federal law limiting longer combination vehicles.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is holding its spring workshop this week, and members will spend two days of this year's spring workshop on issues ranging from uniform weighing procedures to electronic logbooks.