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American Trucking Associations last week asked a federal court to block emission-reduction plans by the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that include concessionaire requirements the group said “unlawfully re-regulated the federally de-regulated trucking industry.”

Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire said Thursday that it will raise prices by up to 10% on all of its truck, bus, pickup and passenger tires because of higher raw materials costs and persistently high fuel prices.

The U.S. Coast Guard has begun setting dates when truckers and others who enter ports in ports must have the government-issued Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, that is meant to prevent terror attacks on the docks.

Part of Iowa Highway 1 that had been severely damaged by heavy flooding last month has reopened, the state's transportation department said Wednesday.

Covenant Transportation Group said late Tuesday it lost $2.3 million, or 17 cents a share, in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $11.3 million, or 80 cents, a year ago.

Covenant Transportation Group said late Tuesday it lost $2.3 million, or 17 cents a share, in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $11.3 million, or 80 cents, a year ago.

The Environmental Protection Agency postponed until early August its decision on whether to grant a request from Texas to cut the national renewable fuels mandate in half, citing the huge number of comments EPA has received on the issue, which has pitted livestock growers against grain producers.

Most public less-than-truckload companies’ second-quarter profits fell as fleets were pounded by record diesel prices and flagging economic demand, but some executives said they thought the overall pricing environment had improved, or at least stabilized.