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The American Transportation Research Institute said it is seeking data from motor carriers for a study of the impacts of hours-of-service rules.

A severe budget shortfall has forced Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson (D) to ask the state legislature to agree to the cancellation of state road projects for next year and for the remainder of the current fiscal year that ends June 30.

Several U.S. senators have criticized the Obama administration’s plan to use $4 billion to create a new national infrastructure bank to help finance transportation projects, questioning how the bank would operate and whether rural projects would lose funding to larger urban areas.

Navistar International Corp. said Tuesday it is expanding its financing relationship with GE Capital, under which GE will become Navistar’s preferred financing provider for Navistar’s U.S. trucks and school buses.

Nearly 90 proposals in 24 states and Congress would “undercut” independent contractor classification and subject carriers using owner-operators to “greater scrutiny and exposure,” according to a new American Trucking Associations’ owner-operator classification alert.

A 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Colorado has been closed indefinitely after a huge rock slide Monday.

The market for radio frequency identification technologies will grow through the next five years, ABI Research predicted in a report.

Bose Corp. officials have set the retail price for a sophisticated new heavy-duty truck seat, which is now available for purchase, at $5,995.

LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm Inc. unveiled here its new Analytics Manager Service, which the company said would allow fleets to monitor driver performance and safety more easily.