Dale L. Belman is a Professor of Labour and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University, USA. He is an Associate Director of the Sloan Foundation Trucking Industry Program and directed a survey of over-the-road drivers for the Trucking Industry Program. His work on trucking has appeared in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Transportation Labor Issues and Regulation and Applied Economic Letters. Chelsea C. White III is the Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, the Director of the Trucking Industry Program, which is part of the Sloan Industry Study Center Network, and the Executive Director of The Logistics Institute (TLI). He is a director of ITS America and of CNF, Inc. His most recent research interests include analyzing the role of real-time information and enabling information technology for improved logistics and, more generally, supply chain productivity and risk, with special focus on the US trucking industry.

• Contents: Preface; The evolution of the U.S. motor carrier industry, B. Starr McMullen; The truckload carrier industry segment, Thomas M. Corsi; Less-than-truckload motor carriers: a story of diversity and change, Peter F. Swan and Stephen V. Burks; The package express industry: a historical and current perspective, Leslie S. Hough and Maciek Nowak; Logistics service providers, C. John Langley, Jr; Industry performance following reformation of economic and social regulation in the trucking industry, James Peoples; Technology in trucking, Anuradha Nagarajan, Enrique Canessa, Maciek Nowak, Will Mitchell and Chelsea C. White III; Truck drivers in the age of information: transformation without gain, Dale L. Belman, Francine Lafontaine and Kristen A. Monaco; Just-in-time and trucking logistics: the lean learning enterprise, Jennifer N. Karlin and Jeffrey K. Liker; Truck safety in the age of information, Lee Husting and Elyce A. Biddle; Future truck drivers: where will they come from, why would they take the job? Michael E. Conyngham; Index.