One in ten truck drivers tested positive for drugs or alcohol during a recent safety checkpoint of commercial vehicles in southern Oregon, and 26% of the trucks had to be put out of service.

National Industrial Transportation League President Edward M. Emmett convened the NITL annual meeting by declaring that the membership would have to grow for the league to build on its successes and extend its power.

More than 2,600 shippers, carrier executives, transportation specialists and others were set to converge in San Diego this week at the 91st annual meeting of the largest shippers’ organization in the U.S., the National Industrial Transportation League.

Marshall Siegel, president of the Independent Truckers Owner-Operators Assn., and Marilyn L. Kriensky, an I-TOO office manager, pleaded guilty Nov. 5 to swindling truckers out of more than $200,000.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration apparently will publish its proposal for ergonomics regulations next September.

More than 2,600 shippers, carrier executives, transportation specialists and others were set to converge in San Diego this week at the 91st annual meeting of the largest shippers’ organization in the U.S., the National Industrial Transportation League.

A California truck driver has been charged in the gruesome slaying of a woman and is suspected to have been involved in other killings.

A grand jury chose not to indict a trucker accused of vehicular homicide.

Michael A. Meredith, the long-time president of the Oregon Trucking Assns., has joined American Trucking Associations to help guide and strengthen ATA’s relationship with the state associations in the next century.

A dispute over the medical exams that Canadian truck drivers need to work in the U.S. may result in a long-awaited reciprocity agreement between the two countries.