With judicial consent of a $27 million settlement with several trucking companies, the final nail was hammered into the coffin containing Idaho’s weight-distance tax.

Truckers are beset by more detours and congestion than ever before because of poorly maintained bridges across the United States, according to a recent study.

Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan told a federal panel that the scandal involving commercial drivers licenses in his state was “an outrage,” but that wrongdoing wasn’t isolated to Illinois and could be worse elsewhere, as in Florida.

Having lost in the court of public opinion, Oregon trucking representatives now want to take their battle against the state’s weight-distance tax to a real courthouse.

The Teamsters’ 2-month-old strike of Associated Wholesale Grocers ended June 4 with the ratification of an eight-year contract between the company and three locals in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Gov. George E. Pataki ordered the price of diesel fuel and gasoline sold on the New York Thruway to be cut by a nickel for the summer driving season.

Having lost in the court of public opinion, Oregon trucking representatives now want to take their battle against the state’s weight-distance tax to a real courthouse.

Gov. George E. Pataki ordered the price of diesel fuel and gasoline sold on the New York Thruway to be cut by a nickel for the summer driving season.

Texas transportation officials want to make more funds available to fix the thousands of bridges in the state that are considered not structurally sound enough to carry heavy vehicles.

Most shippers would be outraged if a trucker took three days to make move two dryers 100 miles, but then again your average Maytag is not 20 feet tall.