In The News

• Seat belt usage among truck drivers hits record level

  By The Trucker News Services
  Posted Mar 26th 2008 3:11AM

  DENVER — The number of professional truckers buckling up their seat belts jumped dramatically in 2007 to a re...

• Owner-operators scrutinize bottom lines to avoid belly-up scenarios

  By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted Mar 26th 2008 3:09AM

  As diesel prices continue to soar above the $4 a gallon mark in at least 21 states, some owner-operators have decide...

• Ontario eyeing mandatory 65-mph speed limiters

  By Transport Topics
  Posted Mar 25th 2008 1:49AM

  The government of Ontario has resurrected a plan to make speed limiters mandating maximum mandatory truck speeds at abou...

• N.Y. gov. backs congestion-fee plan

  By Transport Topics
  Posted Mar 25th 2008 1:45AM

  Newly seated New York Gov. David Paterson (D) backs a New York City plan to charge motorists fees in parts of Manhattan ...

• Fuel protestors ‘park it’ for one day in Western Pennsylvania

  By David Tanner, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted Mar 25th 2008 1:37AM

  A group of truckers northeast of Pittsburgh shut down for one day on Monday, March 24, to protest the high price of ...