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The call center run by the contractor responsible for overseeing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program has delayed additional enrollments by leaving workers on hold for more than 20 minutes on average, the chairman of the House Committee on ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security said.

I joined the company where I work about three months ago, and one of my top-priority jobs has been fuel usage. We had to look at our idling time because all our trucks are sleepers and the drivers run in 48 states.

The regional government of the Portland, Ore., area is backing a new Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River, the Associated Press reported.

Connecticut’s truck inspections fell 20% to about 18,600 in 2007, compared with a year earlier, the Hartford Courant reported.

The U.S. average diesel price took a break last week from its dizzying climb, dipping 1.6 cents a gallon to $4.707, the Department of Energy reported.

Teamsters union members employed at car hauler Performance Transportation Services went on strike against the company Monday to enforce the union’s bargaining table demands, the union said.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday it would buy the transport unit of Essential Energy Services Trust for C$135 million.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector slipped in May from a month earlier but continued to show expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

The Ontario Trucking Association said that a joint meeting this week of the Ontario and Quebec government cabinets moved them closer to accord on trucking issues such as implementing speed limiter legislation and allowing for longer combination vehicles.