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It’s a dark night, it’s drizzling and you’re approaching a foreboding curve with various looming undulations of landscape on both sides of the road. Your eyes focus on the brightly shining reflectors running along the centerline of the narrow highway. If the reflectors weren’t there to catch your headlight beams, if they weren’t evenly spaced to mark the coming route like stitches on the planet’s crust, you’d probably feel uneasy. Without them to point the way, you could find yourself hurtling off the dark asphalt.

Improving surface transportation safety ranks just behind aviation safety as a priority of the Department of Transportation, according to a new report by the department’s inspector general.

The federal government recognizes that it takes more than good vision to make a good truck driver.

The Environmental Protection Agency flatly denied claims by the nation’s largest diesel engine manufacturers that they had warned the agency in 1994 that its pollution tests were flawed and didn’t properly measure engine emissions.

The full text of a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to Transport Topics.

Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.

The Surface Transportation Board extended for one year the authority of motor carrier rate bureaus to set rates and the National Classification Committee to establish commodity classes for freight moving by truck.

Striking ANR Advance Transportation employees put down their picket signs last week as hope faded for one of the nation’s most enduring trucking companies.

Trucking lobbyists last week endorsed a proposal by House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) to merge jurisdiction over railroads and trucking into a single subcommittee.