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The truck of the future will not only practically drive itself, it will be less expensive to operate and provide carriers with greater flexibility for a wider range of uses, according to position papers presented at the Oct. 27 session, “Defining the Future Truck..

International trucks are International trucks, not Navistar.

Dana Corp. and Eaton Corp. have expanded their marketing agreement established earlier this year to include a broader range of medium- and heavy-duty Roadranger System products, the two companies announced.

Volvo’s new VN-660 highway tractor must be just what customers want, because they’ve already ordered more than 1,500 units even though dealers don’t have any in stock, said executives of Volvo Trucks North America during a news briefing.

On Oct. 26, a revolutionary event in the history of transportation technology may have taken place at the Food Distributors International trade show in Nashville, Tenn.

The federal government wants to retain financial reporting requirements for nearly 3,000 of the nation’s largest trucking companies, but it also may give carriers a way to keep the information private.

Michael A. Meredith, the long-time president of the Oregon Trucking Assns., has joined American Trucking Associations to help guide and strengthen ATA’s relationship with the state associations in the next century.

Consolidated Freightways is the first trucking company to outsource a large segment of its information technology operations to IBM Global Services, a unit of International Business Machines Corp.

An eastern Iowa trucking company owner who pleaded guilty to falsifying driver logs was ordered to pay over $23,000 and sentenced to six months in prison.