Shipments that begin and end in Canada, but travel through a portion of the United States, are likely to resume late this year or in early 2017 — a practice that was suspended for more than a decade after the 9/11 attacks.
May 9, 2016Fleets
Government 
TT File Photo
Program to Allow In-Transit Canadian Freight by Truck to Resume Through United States
TT File Photo Editorial, Business
Editorial: The Diesel Merry-Go-Round
The national average retail price for diesel has increased by 14.4% over the most recent 11 weeks. Such a sentence would normally give fleet managers the creeps, invoking the specter of a dreaded fuel spiral.
May 9, 2016 Perspective, Business
Opinion: Video Intelligence Can Safeguard Your Business
If you had an extra $2 million to spend on your fleet, what would you do with it? I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that most fleet owners would earmark the cash for capital expenditures or personnel development.
May 2, 2016 Business, Safety 
Thermo King Corp.
FDA Issues Food Safety Rule
Thermo King Corp. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week issued its final rule establishing new requirements for the sanitary transportation of human and animal food by truck and rail, to guard against food contamination.
April 11, 2016 Editorial, Business
Prepping for Electronic Logging
Even without truck and engine makers exhibiting at this year’s Mid-America Trucking Show, the event offered a good opportunity to take the pulse of drivers.
April 11, 2016 Business 
John Sommers II for Transport Topics
Carriers Pull Out All Stops to Recruit Drivers at MATS
John Sommers II for Transport TopicsLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Unlike past years at the Mid-America Trucking Show, it was the 100-fleet-strong driver recruiting pavilion in the smaller West Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center that had the most consistent foot traffic, as the show marked its first year without a single truck maker and several other large suppliers exhibiting in the South Wing, the largest and traditionally busiest section.
April 11, 2016 Business, Autonomous
MATS to Remain Annual Event Despite Challenges, Planner Says
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Mid-America Trucking Show will maintain its annual schedule for the “foreseeable future,” the president of Exhibit Management Associates told Transport Topics.
April 11, 2016 Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous 
Jonathan S. Reiskin/Transport Topics
ELD Mandate Compliance Vexes Some Smaller Fleets
Jonathan S. Reiskin/Transport TopicsCOLUMBUS, Ind. — Small- and medium-size trucking fleets continue to wrestle with the federal electronic logging mandate, with some finding pleasant surprises and others making operational changes as a result of the transition away from paper, executives said at an industry conference.
April 11, 2016 Government 
John Sommers II for TT
Video: Truckers Criticize FMCSA's New Initiatives
John Sommers II for TTLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Dozens of commercial drivers and industry stakeholders criticized federal trucking regulators’ initiatives at a Mid-America Trucking Show forum here April 1.
April 11, 2016 Special Coverage, Business 
John Sommers II for Transport Topics
Mid-America Trucking Show Enters a New Era
John Sommers II for Transport TopicsA very different Mid-America Trucking Show runs this week, one that will not feature displays by any heavy-duty truck or engine manufacturers.
March 31, 2016