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WASHINGTON — The trucking industry has made great strides in truck safety over the past decade, but numerous challenges remain as motor carriers and truck drivers cope with an increasingly tough regulatory environment, industry executives told the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Monday it has launched a new web page that improves free public access to orders and decisions on FMCSA civil penalty and safety rating cases.

Multiple security background checks and costly fees have caused the population of truck drivers with Transportation Security Administration hazardous materials endorsements to decline by roughly 1.2 million since 2004, a top American Trucking Associations official told a congressional subcommittee last week.

PRINCETON, N.J. — CSA, the new federal safety rating system, has become ingrained in the recruiting departments of some trucking companies less than six months after the program officially launched, fleet operators and technology providers said here.

The U.S. economy’s service sector declined in April but still showed expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — A bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate would prohibit states from increasing truck size and weight limits on the National Highway System.

Ontario officials are considering allowing longer tractors on its highways in response to a request from the province’s trucking industry.

Federal regulators have issued a proposed rule that would extend a ban on the use of handheld cellphones to include intrastate hazardous materials motor carriers.