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DETROIT — Ford is extending the warranties on about 560,000 small cars in the United States and Canada to cover a litany of problems with a troubled 6-speed automatic transmission.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Aug. 14 issued a long-awaited proposal to make changes to its hours-of-service rules that would increase truck drivers’ flexibility with their 30-minute rest break and with allocating time in a sleeper berth.

Scenes from the 2019 National Truck Driving Championships, National Step Van Driving Championships and North American Inspectors Championship at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Aug. 14-17, 2019.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has asked U.S. Senate appropriators to include funding in the 2020 transportation funding bill for a study that would explore the causes for commercial vehicle crashes, an update to a similar study completed 16 years ago.

Despite proposed delays regarding certain parts of the federal Entry Level Driver Training rule, commercial driver license training schools shouldn’t dawdle as the rule’s upcoming effective date nears, according to training expert Jim Butler.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance has initiated conversations with transportation ministers in an effort to encourage adoption of electronic logging devices at the provincial level.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration agreed to allow 126 drivers to operate trucks along interstates after it provisionally renewed their exemptions from a vision requirement.

Robert Sumwalt and Jennifer ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøndy were confirmed by the Senate on Aug. 1 to continue serving on the National Transportation Safety Board.