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Congress voted to extend the current hours-of-service rules for truck drivers for one year, as part of an extension to the six-year highway bill reauthorization, congressional aides told Transport Topics Thursday.

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The U.S. economy grew at a 3.3% annual pace in the second quarter, which was slightly faster than it previously estimated, amid a quicker pace of inventory building, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday..

Annette Sandberg, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said Tuesday that changing the federal hours-of-service rules for truck drivers would cause widespread disruptions across the trucking industry and significantly hamper the agency’s ability to coordinate enforcement efforts.

SAN DIEGO — Trucking executives told Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials here that they wanted more accurate safety statistics about their companies and that the agency’s compliance reviews should be less intrusive.

Con-Way Transportation Services said it would encourage all its 13,000 drivers to participate in American Trucking Associations’ Highway Watch program, in what ATA said was the first corporate-wide effort by a national trucking company.

American Trucking Associations named its driver and safety manager of the year at the associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council fall conference Sept. 22 and announced the winners of its 2004 National Truck Safety Contest the same day.

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