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The bus industry opposes its inclusion in the proposed rewrite of the hours-of-service regulations governing commercial motor vehicle drivers.

The year is 2001. It is summer and the commute to work has doubled. Cellular telephones are drawn from hips and everyone is talking about why, at this time of day, roads swarm with construction activity.

Hours-of-service rules by the Department of Transportation, controversial in most quarters, could slam dunk doughnut sales, a bakery trade group claims.

A House appropriations subcommittee granted the Department of Transportation another $605 million for 2001, boosting DOT’s overall spending plan to $55.2 billion, or about $5.2 billion over 2000.

A settlement over diesel emissions reached between three of the nation’s largest grocery chains, the state of California and environmental groups could set an expensive precedent for air-quality lawsuits against trucking in California and beyond.

The 90-day clock on the comment period for the Department of Transportation’s proposed changes to the hours-of-service regulation began ticking May 2, but response was already flowing into the agency as truck drivers, industry executives and safety critics took to the Internet to post their opinions.

The National Transportation Safety Board is about to chide the Department of Transportation for not providing truck drivers adequate opportunities to get a full measure of rest while on the road, according to the chairman of the NTSB.

The future that trailer-maker Donald “Jerry” Ehrlich sees for his industry involves trailers that are smarter, provide a smoother ride and carry more payload.

Rising distillate inventories brought a 1-cent drop in the price of diesel fuel last week, although falling stocks of crude oil and a strike that has halted Norway’s North Sea oil exports seemed to threaten another jump in price.