State legislators are trying to ease the pain of high diesel and gasoline costs by removing state taxes from the fuel price equation.

Gov. Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho endorsed a $27 million settlement that would provide refunds to interstate carriers that overpaid the state’s weight-distance tax and reform the truck tax system, which was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge.

When Robert Jackson graduated from a truck driver training school and got his commercial driver license, he was a truck driver in the eyes of the federal government, but D.M. Bowman Inc. saw things differently.

Oregon officials are concerned that commercial driver license applicants have memorized how to perform perfect pre-trip inspections but wouldn’t know a real problem if it fell off the truck in front of them.

State legislators are trying to ease the pain of high diesel and gasoline costs by removing state taxes from the fuel price equation.

Gov. Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho endorsed a $27 million settlement that would provide refunds to interstate carriers that overpaid the state’s weight-distance tax and reform the truck tax system.

A Washington court has struck down Initiative 695, the measure approved by voters in November that greatly reduced the state’s motor vehicle excise tax and required a public vote for all new tax and fee increases.

Trucking companies that hire Pennsylvanians are having to resort to unusual means to conduct pre-employment screening since the state revoked access to the state’s driver records for background-check provider DAC Services.

Ten-year highs for crude oil propelled diesel fuel prices to the highest on record, surpassing levels established in 1990 during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

Volvo refused to offer further concessions to European Union officials who have indicated they will bar the Swedish truck maker from taking over its rival Scania.