W.C. McQuaide Inc., a 37-year-old Pennsylvania motor carrier will parks its rigs for good just a few days before Thanksgiving, largely due to high diesel prices.

Refrigerated carriers that cannot recoup fuel expenses through surcharges are suffering from high energy prices more than the rest of trucking as they must purchase diesel to both power their tractors and cool their trailers.

In spite of high fuel prices and other transportation woes, an Ohio-based stock fund manager is touting trucking stocks for his portfolio.

Revenue and tonnage for trucking will continue to expand at a steady rate for the first decade of the new century, according to a recently updated study of transportation and the economy.

A freshly reorganized National Accounting and Finance Council will spend the coming year trying to fulfill two information tasks — one internal to American Trucking Associations and the other external for the direct benefit of members.

Refrigerated carriers that cannot recoup fuel expenses through surcharges are suffering from high energy prices more than the rest of trucking as they must purchase diesel to both power their tractors and cool their trailers.

A hardening insurance market for trucking that has seen premiums rising sharply throughout the year now has developed a new option for providing coverage — group captive companies.

Fresh from a victory in the hours-of-service issue, won in part by a united stand within the industry, for-hire interstate motor carriers and their representatives wrestled among themselves over how to approach efforts to sink the Single State Registration System.

Aggressive actions in the face of soaring fuel costs have kept profits growing for United Parcel Service, which announced a third quarter increase in net income of $125 million, or 22% over last year at this time.

The former chair of the disbanded Information Technology and Logistics Council is trying to woo her compatriots into joining another American Trucking Associations council.