When the AFL-CIO voted Oct. 13 to endorse Vice President Al Gore for president, two major players in the labor federation refused to sign on: the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters.

The House of Representatives passed its version of a bill Oct. 14 to create the National Motor Carrier Administration and beef up truck and bus safety on other fronts, in what some observers are calling the most significant change in federal trucking oversight since the industry was deregulated nearly 20 years ago.

The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a public hearing on highway safety issues raised by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

When the AFL-CIO voted Oct. 13 to endorse Vice President Al Gore for president, two major players in the labor federation refused to sign on: the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters.

In the first public visit by a sitting president to a Teamster leader since Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Clinton said he would not open the border to unqualified drivers from Mexico.

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to create the a separate truck safety agency within the Department of Transportation and beef up truck and bus safety on other fronts.

In what some are calling the most significant development in federal trucking oversight in nearly 20 years, Congress is poised to establish a separate motor carrier safety agency.

The second International Large Truck Safety Symposium brought together more than 150 motor carriers, federal officials and safety advocates to find ways to make the industry safer.

The second International Large Truck Safety Symposium brought together more than 150 motor carriers, federal officials and safety advocates to find ways to make the industry safer.

As support snowballs for a separate motor carrier safety administration, the Federal Highway Administration continued to take body blows for its failure to adequately enforce safety regulations and for its sluggishness in issuing a final rule on hours-of-service regulations.