Congress passed an omnibus appropriations bill last week that provides long-awaited funding for the Automated Commercial Environment system for the Customs Service, and the agency has already started searching for a contractor.

With no mechanism to provide seamless insurance coverage for trucks crossing the southwestern border, the American Insurance Association has vehemently denounced a recently issued North American Free Trade Agreement panel report regarding the entry of Mexican trucks into the United States.

The fabled Santa may drive a sleigh, but for South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, he’ll be hauling gifts in an 18-wheeler.

In a twist of fate that finds the road riding the truck instead of the truck riding the road, three flatbed trucks carried sections of old Route 66 from Oklahoma to the nation’s capital.

In a twist of fate that finds the road riding the truck instead of the truck riding the road, three flatbed trucks carried sections of old Route 66 from Oklahoma to the nation’s capital.

The fabled Santa may drive a sleigh, but for South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, he’ll be hauling gifts in an 18-wheeler.

Mexican trucks will not be rolling into the United States anytime soon, contrary to what recent news reports may have suggested, an expert on the North American Free Trade Agreement said.

A news report from Mexico City Mexico City quoted an unidentified U.S. Department of Transportation official as saying the United States will appeal a decision of the North American Free Trade Agreement arbitration panel which found fault with the U.S. refusal to open the border with Mexico to international trucking.

The results of Canada’s national elections are in and while trucking industry officials are hopeful that transportation policies will be given a prominent place on the government’s agenda, a pre-election report card distributed by the Canadian Trucking Alliance suggests that will not necessarily be the case.

Idle-Aire Technologies hired Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to market a system designed to provide air conditioning and heating to truck cabs at truck stops so that engines won’t have to be idled.