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PHILADELPHIA — Music icon Sir Paul McCartney surprised and delighted the nearly 1,000 people attending a customer appreciation dinner hosted by Freightliner Trucks here on Oct. 19.

PHILADELPHIA — Dave Osiecki, American Trucking Associations’ executive vice president and chief of national advocacy, says he is optimistic regulations the industry has criticized over the years would be reformed if Congress advances key bills this year.

PHILADELPHIA — House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said Oct. 19 that he expects a six-year highway funding bill to reach the House floor next week and the White House before the beginning of 2016.

PHILADELPHIA — The October report on Class 8 truck orders that is coming out in early November will not look good, said the CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, but that will be because numbers will be compared to a highly unusual corresponding month last year.

PHILADELPHIA — Board rooms, assembly lines and deliveries on the roadways can be improved by enhancing the way managers and employees communicate, retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal told industry executives here Oct. 19.

PHILADELPHIA — While industry and government often don’t see eye to eye on regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency and American Trucking Associations agree that SmartWay is a program that works.

PHILADELPHIA — The flawed and imperfect U.S. economy is, and will remain well into 2016, the world’s strongest producer — and trucking will benefit from that, two economists offering forecasts said here.