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Rona Bruneau has logged hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel of a big rig, spent countless hours on the telephone as a dispatcher and slogged through the mind-numbing mounds of paperwork required of truckers and their companies.

SAN FRANCISCO — The head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance is putting the United States on notice: end unfair trade practices, such as restrictions on Canadian trucks hauling freight back to their home country, or the association will push Canada to strictly enforce its trade laws.

Federal regulations on foreign drivers are not in harmony, and it will take an act of Congress to let Canadian truck drivers to make domestic deliveries in the United States, according to an Immigration and Naturalization Service official.

Bankrupt Preston Trucking Co. is scheduled to sell off its real estate at a public auction in Baltimore on Dec. 17, either to a company that has made a bulk bid for all the parcels or to individual bidders.

The Department of Transportation quietly sent its proposal for hours-of-service reforms to the White House on Dec. 3, where it awaits review by the Office of Management and Budget.

An independent panel of scientists charged with reviewing Environmental Protection Agency decisions rejected an agency report that said diesel emissions are “highly likely” to cause cancer at everyday levels.

The Teamsters union has committed itself to organizing owner-operator truck drivers in the nation’s maritime ports, but it is not clear — not even to its leadership — the best way to accomplish this goal.

Mild fall weather, rising inventories and a dip in the price of crude oil contributed to a 1-cent drop in the price of diesel fuel last week, after six consecutive weeks of increases.

The head of the Maine Department of Transportation told truckers that falling speed limits caused by development along the state’s major highways were threatening the productivity of the industry.