In The News

• IRS Boosts Per Diem Rate For Drivers

  By TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Oct 19th 2009 5:26AM

  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has raised the per diem rate for drivers, or the amount per day that a truck driver...

• Truck Driver Pre-Screening Program Reality After Seven Years

  By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor - TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Oct 19th 2009 5:24AM

  In August 2002, a group of truck safety professionals went to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with a s...

• ODOT closes two rest areas to make room for new interchange

  By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer, LandLine
  Posted Oct 19th 2009 5:20AM

  While OOIDA senior member William “Lewie” Pugh of Freeport, OH, said he isn’t opposed to a new int...

• ANALYSIS: Don’t get railroaded by all of this tax talk

  By David Tanner, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted Oct 19th 2009 5:18AM

  Highway users just can’t catch a break. Despite paying billions into the Highway Trust Fund in fuel taxes an...

• Class 8 truck sales improve 8.6 percent in September

  By The Trucker Staff
  Posted Oct 16th 2009 3:23AM

  Heavy duty trucks sales in September improved 8.6 percent compared to the month before, but 2009 continues to lag the...