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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, its parent Department of Transportation and the Justice Department have not decided on their response to a federal court’s rejection of FMCSA’s revised driver hours-of-service rules, agency spokesmen told Transport Topics.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. his letter is in response to testimony submitted on behalf of American Trucking Associations at the June 15 hearing of the Senate Energy Committee. That testimony contained misrepresentations about biodiesel that must be corrected.

Two Storms Force Evacuations in Florida • Initial Jobless Claims Fall by 4,000 • Profits Rise at Boyd Bros. • Import Prices Rise 0.2% in July • And more...

The number of truck-related fatalities on U.S. highways increased to 4,986 in 2003 from 4,939 the year before, but it was only the second time since 1995 the number was lower than 5,000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday.

Component and raw-material shortages have spread to some of the largest key suppliers in the heavy-duty truck manufacturing industry, cutting potential big-rig production by about 10% this year, the head of the nation’s largest truck manufacturer said.

False Tip Leads Coast Guard to Keep Load of Lemons Out of U.S. • N.M. Sees Increase in Drug Smuggling • Tougher N.J. Security for Licenses Leads to More Arrests

Saudi Arabia Says Spare Oil Capacity Could Be Used Now • IEA Boosts Oil Demand Forecast • Commercial Vehicle Group Completes IPO • New Intermodal Park to be Built in Kentucky • And more...

The Department of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security tipped off managers of the Highway Watch program of the impending alerts in New York and Washington several hours before Secretary Tom Ridge told the public Aug. 1, so that employees could brief fleets and prepare for a potential barrage of telephone calls.

The U.S. average price for retail diesel fuel increased 3.4 cents to a record $1.814 per gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.