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.