TT File PhotoMembers of the moving industry are cleaning up their act to ward off more heavy-handed scrubbing from federal regulators and the news media.

The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.

Additional indictments were handed down in a bribery scandal involving commercial driver licensing in Illinois that has now spread to the state transportation department.

The nation’s largest railroads have forged a plan with unions to reduce fatigue by giving workers rest periods and regular work schedules.

An Oklahoma senator wants to study whether the state’s weigh station operations are adequate.

Vermont legislators, attempting to open more of the state’s roads to longer trucks, are stirring up debate over the issue but not making headway.

State officials are contemplating raising tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike by 17 to 20% in the next three years to pay for road improvements.

The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.

Additional indictments were handed down in a bribery scandal involving commercial driver licensing in Illinois that has now spread to the state transportation department.

Gov. Parris N. Glendening announced he would sign legislation that calls for inspections to be performed on trucks emitting black smoke.