There are a lot of car commercials being seen today, and it’s becoming pretty clear by the closing of so many cars lots all across the country and the possible impending bankruptcies of the big three automakers that there are serious problems. Truck sales, however, are also...

In Hagerstown, Maryland, the Volvo engine and transmission plant is cutting one hundred and forty-two jobs. The layoffs were unfortunate but not completely unexpected, because the company had said that orders were declining and production had to be slowed at the plant. Almost thirteen...

California already has some serious laws on the books when it comes to emission standards. However, they are about to get more difficult. There have already been recent plans made to help protect the state against greenhouse gases and now they are thinking about cracking down on...

How much truckers charge and for what, is something that is being looked at a little more closely recently. Right now, these rates are not legislated or mandated, and there is increasing pressure to do these sorts of things. There is a fear that not regulating these rates will allow...

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) isn’t heard about all that much, unless you live in a town with a big shipping port. Now they are making the news a little more often, though, because they finally see something happening that, they feel, they have to take action against. They...

Extortion is an ugly thing. For one labor leader, his days of extorting money from a trucking firm appear to be over. In the Philippines, a company called San Antonio Haulers, Inc. was having trouble with a man who would initiate a labor case against the firm and then would demand...