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Let’s hope that the current congressional recess gives several members of the House of Representatives an opportunity to rethink their positions on the nation’s infrastructure and leads them to help forge a strategy to fix our ailing roads and bridges.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plan to soon make public the number of fatal accidents in which individual carriers are involved has intensified industry concern over FMCSA’s recent delay of its plan for determining whether the carrier was at fault in each of the accidents.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Great Dane Trailers unveiled two major expansion projects for its operations in the Savannah area last week, officially opening the doors on its ninth manufacturing plant and breaking ground for an engineering and testing facility.

Factory orders for heavy-duty trucks declined for the third-straight month in March, sparking discussion over whether interest in new North American trucks is waning or if the industry is temporarily at rest.

A proposal to eliminate the 12% federal excise tax on new trucks and trailers and to raise the federal diesel tax 6.3 cents to make up for the lost revenue to the Highway Trust Fund was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration took exception recently to a little-noticed stock analyst report that said there was no relation between two of the agency’s key safety scores and actual truck-involved crashes, saying there is actually a strong correlation between a carrier’s unfavorable safety scores and high crash rates.

A group of eight Northeastern state governments urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit Navistar Inc. from selling engines that do not comply with federal emissions regulations unless the company offsets the additional pollutants its engines emit.

A burst of tornados struck the Dallas area last week, severely damaging trucks and trailers at a Schneider National Inc. terminal, a truck dealer’s facility and a trailer dealer’s lot.

Customers ordered a net total of 21,800 new commercial trailers in February, a 4% drop from last February, ACT Research Co. reported, but manufacturers were confident it was just a temporary lull.