American Trucking Associations announced that its 2014 Management Conference & Exhibition is due to take place in San Diego in the fall, providing a forum for discussion of some of the most significant issues for the industry.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Trucking fleets are likely to shuffle down a familiar path of slow, steady improvement in overall economic conditions, general freight levels and equipment trends next year, according to three industry experts who spoke on a panel last week at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.— Bulldog Hiway Express CEO Philip Byrd Sr. started his business career in lumber, the industry in which his father and grandfather worked.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Federal officials said they are working a new design for the public website of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program to make it clearer what carriers’ scores mean and are still reviewing the best way to incorporate crash accountability into the safety program.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Weary of another year of political gridlock, trucking industry leaders meeting here vowed to make more critical assessments before offering support to lawmakers and to take a more cohesive message directly to the public.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Changes to the federal hours-of-service rule topped the 2013 survey of critical issues facing the North American trucking industry, the American Transportation Research Institute reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Further collaboration among trucking industry suppliers and technology vendors took center stage in the exhibit hall at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here. 

ORLANDO, Fla. — Facing a long list of changes and challenges, the trucking industry must take steps now to ensure its long-term success, starting with evaluating its traditional political allegiances, said Bill Graves, president of American Trucking Associations.    

ORLANDO, Fla. — Cost pressures, weak rate growth and sluggish freight demand pushed third-quarter trucking fleet failures higher, more than doubling the pace of the year-earlier quarter and topping the full year totals recorded in 2011 and 2012, according to a new analyst report.