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President Bush has signed a bill into law setting restrictions on the government’s pilot program to allow Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways, the Associated Press reported.

President Bush signed a bill Friday that would set restrictions on the government’s pilot program to allow Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways, the Associated Press reported.

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association has asked the Surface Transportation Board to delay a decision to end antitrust immunity for trucking rate bureaus.

Preliminary data released by the Department of Transportation show that fatalities from large truck crashes declined 3.7% last year compared with 2005.

Auto and truck parts supplier Commercial Vehicle Group said Wednesday it will close its Seattle manufacturing facility and transfer operations from there by the end of this year.

Brent Jones first got word March 27 that his trucking company’s name was being used as part of a freight load board fraud scheme.

UPS Inc. said Tuesday it had expanded its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles by adding 50 new hybrid electric delivery trucks.

A Pennsylvania trucking company donated $7,500 to help the a local clean air board purchase a new air quality monitor for the county, Harrisburg, Pa., CBS affiliate WHP reported on its Web site.

A Senate proposal that would set fuel-economy standards for heavy- and medium-duty trucks conflicts with a current push to reduce engine emissions and would not work without additional research, representatives of the truck manufacturing industry said.