A California board rejected an appeal by industry groups to reconsider its decision to label diesel exhaust particulates as a toxic air contaminant.

Because truckers and car drivers persist in ignoring grade crossing signals and barriers, a test project in North Carolina will attempt to seal vehicles from the railroad tracks.

The National Transportation Safety Board last week waded through conflicting testimony about crossing signals and the actions of truck driver John Stokes, who was at the wheel of the steel-laden tractor-trailer struck by an Amtrak passenger train March 15 in Bourbonnais, Ill.

Instead of dumping damaged containers of paint, wood stain and related products, and thus having the otherwise useful goods end up as hazardous waste in a landfill, employees of Roadway Express donated the items to charity.

As investigators seek the cause of the deadly Bourbonnais, Ill., Amtrak wreck, studies reveal that motor vehicle drivers are almost always responsible for train-car or train-truck collisions.

As investigators seek the cause of the deadly Bourbonnais, Ill., Amtrak wreck, studies reveal that 50% of grade crossing accidents are caused by drivers who ignore warning signals.

The families of two Montana women killed in an accident after a cement truck blew out a wheel are suing the trucking company and its tire provider, claiming retread tires are to blame.

Reckless truckers who tempt fate at railroad crossings by trying to beat oncoming trains stand to lose their commercial driver licenses, and their employers could lose thousands of dollars, under new regulations.

With a few strokes of a pen, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber last week wiped out the oldest and most costly weight-distance tax in the nation. But the tax's backers are still fighting.

Sen. Max Baucus took Labor Day literally. Instead of spending the start of the holiday weekend chomping hot dogs at a political barbecue, the Democrat from Montana jumped behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer and pulled freight down Interstate 90.