In a surprise move, Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly – criticized by trucking for his handling of border-crossing issues – tendered his resignation Friday, effective immediately.

The North American Free Trade Agreement arbitration panel ruling on the U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking dispute will release its report on Feb. 5. The report, believed to find the U.S. violated Nafta by refusing to allow Mexican trucks to enter the country, was expected by Jan. 10.

Though a recent federal court decision struck down United Parcel Service's policy against hiring truckers with monocular vision to drive trucks under 10,000 pounds, an expert says the decision won't have much of an effect on the trucking industry.

New statistics from Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a Toronto researcher, reveal that the life expectancy for male truck drivers is 15 years less than for the rest of the male population of the United States.

United Parcel Service cannot maintain a companywide policy against hiring truckers with monocular vision to drive trucks under 10,000 pounds, according to a Dec. 12 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

New statistics from a Toronto researcher reveal that the life expectancy for male truck drivers is 15 years less than for the rest of the male population of the United States, and a poor diet is to blame.

A barrage of ice and snow storms Christmas week brought truck, train and air shipments in the Midwest to a halt, cut power to 500,000 residents and businesses in several states and left a layer of glaring ice on pavements from New Mexico to Arkansas.

While trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico continued to expand under the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Clinton administration for the fifth year refused to admit Nafta truckers from Mexico, drawing a rebuke, and possible penalties, from arbitrators. In Canada, as in the U.S., skyrocketing fuel prices drove many truckers to protest lines or to the brink.

Officials in Manitoba are considering stringent enforcement tools for repeat drugged and drunken offenders that could include forfeiture of commercial or private vehicles.

Officials in Manitoba are considering stringent enforcement tools for repeat drugged and drunken offenders that could include forfeiture of commercial or private vehicles.