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Vehicle hauler Allied Systems Holdings said it is restructuring its finances after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday.

American Trucking Associations last week called on the industry’s chief federal regulator to release the results of a study that the group said could buttress the case for using police reports to determine who is at fault in truck-related crashes.

Canadian bulk trucking company Trimac Transportation said it will acquire Ontario-based specialized bulk carrier Liquid Cargo Lines.

CRST International Inc. has announced the appointment of Andrew Hadland as president of Specialized Transportation Inc., one of CRST’s operating companies.

Bigger trucks and a field study of the hours-of-service restart provision are among items American Trucking Associations said it wants included in any highway bill that emerges from the House-Senate conference committee weighing the legislation.

Trucking managers in information technology and finance will meet jointly in Tampa, Fla., next month to explore opportunities for efficiency improvement through IT and strategies for handling significant tax changes expected at the end of 2012.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Low participation by Mexican carriers in the cross-border trucking program could lead to the resumption of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, an official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said.

We live in an age of electronic information. Computers, the Internet, iPhones, iPads, GPS . . . all these technological wonders work to make our lives easier, reduce paperwork and give us all more time to do other things.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said that roughly 10,000 truck and bus inspectors will fan out at more than 1,500 locations across North America from June 5-7 for the annual “Roadcheck” safety event.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week proposed requiring all new heavy-duty vehicles to have electronic stability systems that reduce rollovers and loss of control, which the government said could prevent up to 56% of vehicle rollovers and 14% of loss-of-control crashes.