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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee could soon consider a bill that would benefit the trucking industry by requiring steamship lines and railroads to repair container chassis and trailers.

With less than three weeks before its Sept. 2 deadline to complete name-based background checks on millions of hazardous material drivers, the Transportation Security Administration said it could not yet supply information on how those checks were progressing.

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In the industry’s quest for innovative technologies, trailers are sometimes viewed as an afterthought. This is truly unfortunate since some of the most productive technologies adopted in trucking are found in the box that carries the freight.

Fewer than half of all commercial truck drivers wear seat belts, a much smaller percentage than drivers of passenger vehicles, according to Annette Sandberg, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

U.S. wholesalers kept their inventories flat for a third straight month in June, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The price of diesel fuel has increased more than 3 cents per gallon since the end of June. Although diesel is still well below the record high set earlier this year, how does this recent increase affect your business? More ...

U.S. workers increased their productivity in the second quarter at a 5.7% rate – more than twice as fast than in the previous quarter, a government report said.

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