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An estate tax relief bill that would benefit family-owned businesses, including trucking companies, ran into a political dogfight in the Senate, which also featured an unsuccessful attempt to temporarily lift the federal tax on diesel fuel and gasoline.

J.B. Hunt Transportation estimated its costs will increase $250 million annually if the federal hours-of-service proposal is implemented.

Trucking companies have changed the way they handle waste products generated by their shops, not only giving new life to worn-out materials but also being good citizens, conscious of the environment and careful of its protection.

Investors in stocks of diesel engine manufacturers should worry more about how declining orders will affect stock prices rather than whether the companies can meet a federal government deadline that is two years away, said Wall Street analysts.

Amid some confusion over New Jersey’s prohibition against off-route interstate truck movements, state police handed out another 76 tickets to drivers, raising the of number of summonses above 150 since serious enforcement started May 20.

Schneider National, a $3 billion freight transportation company, plans to spin off its logistics business as a separate entity, making shares of it available to the public.

Mexico’s largest trucking association, Canacar, has seized the moment to present its complaints on North American Free Trade Agreement trucking issues to the country’s incoming president, Vicente Fox Quesada.

Trucks can keep cruising the Arizona deserts at the same speed as four-wheelers thanks to a state Department of Transportation study.

An audit of the commercial driver license program found the primary goal of limiting truckers to one CDL has largely been achieved, but states are not disqualifying convicted holders as required by law, allowing unsafe drivers on the road.