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WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is planning to divide its efforts to craft a new set of hours-of-service rules for commercial vehicle drivers into parts, FMCSA Administrator Joseph Clapp last week told Transport Topics.

WASHINGTON — President Bush’s budget plan for fiscal 2003 proposes to spend $8.8 billion for transportation security, or roughly 15% of the Transportation Department’s total $59.3 billion budget package.

WASHINGTON — Reducing highway fatalities, alleviating congestion and increasing security have emerged as top funding priorities in the next multiyear highway bill, according to the head of a key Senate authorizing committee.

WASHINGTON — All truck drivers doing business at West Coast ports will be required to display their commercial driver licenses to get onto port property, according to interim security guidelines soon to be announced by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Department of Transportation needs to take additional safety steps with the Department of Energy to coordinate future shipments of high-level radioactive waste by truck and rail, according to a recent report by the DOT Office of Inspector General.

The Maritime Administration is working on a proposal to develop a nationwide identification card for transportation workers that all truck drivers and millions more who are employed in moving people and freight would carry.

U.S. Customs Service officials and industry representatives say a House bill requiring inspection of “all cargo on commercial trucks and vessels” entering the United States would seriously delay traffic at the nation’s 361 ports.

Representatives of the trucking industry have agreed to develop an anti-terrorism action plan with the assistance of a professional security consultant.

Congress has ordered the Department of Defense to review the security measures of trucking companies that deliver and store missiles and other munitions.

Trucking won several major regulatory victories in 2001, beginning with the rollback of a mandatory worker protection program that would have cost the industry billions of dollars annually to implement.