A Hard Turn: Big-Rig Drivers Focus on Getting Healthy

Beset by insurance costs and desperate to make sure that drivers pass health tests, trucking companies and industry groups are working to persuade them to change their habits.

In Texas, First Mexican Truck Enters U.S. Under Nafta

The Nafta trucking program had been stalled for years by American opponents who said it would put highway safety and American jobs at risk.

Board Urges Cellphone Ban for All Commercial Drivers

A recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board represents an evolving understanding of the hazards of cellphone use by drivers.

Trucks That Are Bigger and Badder, but Perhaps Not Better

Heavy-duty pickup trucks are the supercars of the truck world, having more power than drivers are likely ever to exploit, but there are three brawny new models for drivers who want to try.

Obama Announces Fuel Rules for Heavy Vehicles

The rules are similar to “light duty” fuel economy regulations for cars and sport utility vehicles.

Truck driver dies after horse trailer hits semi in Indiana Toll Road crash

A horse trailer came loose from the SUV pulling it down the Indiana Toll Road early Saturday morning near Chesterton before striking a semitrailer truck and killing the semi's driver, police said.

Con-way Inc. Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results...

Con-way Inc. today reported 2011 fourth quarter net income of $23.0 million, or 41 cents per diluted share.

Truck weight increase proposal scuttled

A bleary 3 a.m. vote by the House of Representatives' Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today removed a controversial truck weight increase proposal from the five-year highway funding bill known formally as the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, allowing the committee to send the bill to the House floor for a vote by a narrow 29 ... (more)

On the move: River, rail and road

With its central location and access to transportation by river, rail, road, and in some cases by air, local officials say there is little question as to why Ohio has one of the largest shipping networks in the nation.