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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials said they will soon begin toughening oversight of the nation’s hazardous material carriers, closely monitoring their Compliance, Safety, Accountability scores on a monthly basis.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) has introduced legislation designed to reform the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s regulatory process.

U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico dropped in April by the most this year, and freight carried by trucks declined, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported June 25.

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators on June 25 voted to include a provision that would allow the use of twin 33-foot trailers nationwide in a fiscal 2016 transportation funding bill.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s charter will lapse next week if the Republican-led Congress follows a path outlined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that would delay a vote on reauthorizing the bank until July.

A plan approved by the Rhode Island Senate on June 23 to charge tolls to large commercial trucks that includes some tax rebates and grants for mostly local truckers is “discriminatory, sloppy and lacks information,” according to head of the state’s trucking association.

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel on June 24 easily approved a six-year highway policy bill, advancing the measure to the full Senate. Lawmakers would need to act quickly on the bill as federal funding authority for transportation programs expires at the end of July.

The world’s largest economy shrank in the first quarter, just not as much as previously estimated, with the help of a bigger gain in consumer spending.