Rep. Jim Oberstar said he will try again to expand the freeze on longer combination vehicles, while ATA and other industry groups push their agenda on LCVs and other issues in written comments.

The truck safety debate took a new course Thursday as the National Private Truck Council called on the DOT to focus enforcement on drivers and carriers with the worst safety records.

TT File PhotoA proposed rule changing unloading operations for haulers of liquefied compressed gases such as propane could cost as much as $3,000 for each truck, an industry official said.

Federal legislation requiring the Surface Transportation Board to increase its emphasis on ensuring competition between rail carriers was introduced last week by four senators.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general was back on Capitol Hill last week, urging Congress to completely remodel the federal government’s trucking safety program.

A Truckload Carriers Association board hopes it has the right formula to improve the treatment of drivers by shippers and receivers. It will use a pinch of recognizing the best companies and a dash of education to better relationships with the rest.

If you are old enough to operate a combat helicopter, you should be old enough to drive a commercial truck across state lines, many trucking executives argue.

After decades of feeling like second-class citizens, truckload carriers are being aggressively wooed by an American Trucking Associations eager to expand its membership and political influence.

American Trucking Associations last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a Washington state truck tax unconstitutional.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general was back on Capitol Hill Thursday, urging Congress to completely remodel the federal government’s trucking safety program..