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In March, when the Senate passed its transportation reauthorization bill by a wide margin, the measure addressed the nation’s total surface transportation system.

Class 8 truck sales rose 19.4% in June over the year-ago level, extending a growth pattern that dealers and analysts said could be in jeopardy during the rest of 2012 because of growing economic uncertainty.

A provision in the recently enacted federal transportation legislation aimed at protecting truckers and shippers by dramatically raising the bond freight brokers must pay has ignited a storm of controversy.

In 2004, NFI Industries began outfitting its 900 sleepers with diesel-fired auxiliary power units to cool the cabs without running the truck engines.

New York truckers have helped organize a coalition of 22 business groups to oppose the 45% increase in truck tolls proposed by the New York State Thruway Authority.

The first three trucking companies to report second-quarter earnings last week said a combination of lower fuel costs, higher rates and cost controls produced double-digit profit improvements.

When the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest airfreight contract, worth $1.4 billion, expires in September 2013, current pact holder FedEx Corp. will have to battle archrival UPS Inc. to keep it.

The average retail price of diesel fuel increased for a second week, rising 1.2 cents a gallon, which oil analysts attributed to higher crude oil prices and record-breaking distillate exports from the United States.