Truck drivers who have “uncomplicated” diabetes and who are not taking insulin have a greater risk of being involved in a crash than diabetics who use insulin, according to research done by the University of Montreal in Quebec.

Changes in Canadian environmental clean air policy that would affect the trucking industry have met with cautious support from the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

Safety officials in the United States and Canada placed 26% of the 42,826 trucks and drivers they inspected out of service as part of International Road Check 2000.

Twenty-one of the Army’s top combat helicopters took off on flatbed tractor-trailers for a 1,400-mile trek to a retrofitting plant in Arizona, marking the first time trucks were used in the process.

Twenty-one of the Army’s top combat helicopters took off on flatbed trailers pulled by an equal number of tractors for a 1,400-mile trek to a retrofitting plant in Arizona, marking the first time trucks were used in the process.

A study that attempted to warn of high-risk behavior that could expose long-haul truckers to the human immunodificiency virus drew protests and stormy reaction from many readers, including those who make their living at truck stops.

The researcher who led the survey on long-haul truckers and their risk of exposure to HIV wants to clarify several things about the findings.

The atmosphere at many of today’s trucks stops differs little from a suburban shopping mall. Truck stops and malls are usually clean, well-lighted places with a wide variety of goods and services for sale and many different opportunities for amusement and entertainment.

A study that attempted to warn of high-risk behavior that could expose long-haul truckers to the human immunodificiency virus drew protests and stormy reaction from many readers, including those who make their living at truck stops.

The researcher who led the survey on long-haul truckers and their risk of exposure to HIV wants to clarify several things about the findings.