The executive committee of the Truckload Carriers Association voted 20-8 on Feb. 5 to recommend integrating the group with American Trucking Associations.

The Clinton administration proposes to spend a record $29.3 billion on roads and bridges in fiscal 2001, but the federal-aid program still faces diversions of tax revenue, and that drew some complaints.

The executive committee of the Truckload Carriers Association voted 20-8 on Feb. 5 to recommend integrating the group with American Trucking Associations.

The nation’s most influential trucking group has endorsed the collection of electronic data for accident analysis as long as the same rules are applied to both trucks and passenger vehicles.

Members of the Oregon Trucking Associations are hunting for cash to help pay for a $4.1 million campaign to keep their state’s weight-distance tax in the grave.

Burning more gallons of fuel means federal transportation budget makers will have a $3 billion windfall to work with in fiscal 2001.

Burning more gallons of fuel means federal transportation budget makers will have a $3 billion windfall to work with in fiscal 2001.

Truckload Carriers Association President Lana R. Batts said she will resign her post at the 900-member group effective at the end of March.

The Department of Transportation’s much-anticipated hours-of-service reforms should be made public within a few weeks, according to a top agency official.

Data recorders and productivity issues are on the agenda for the winter meeting of American Trucking Associations, whose board of directors is meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.