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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Transportation to study and establish a maximum number of hours that drivers may be detained at loading docks without being compensated.

The Obama administration’s proposed budget would cut funding for clean-diesel technology grants, Bloomberg reported.

WASHINGTON — The first-ever proposed federal commercial truck fuel-efficiency and carbon emissions standard could cause an industry pre-buy before it becomes effective in 2014, or drive motor carriers to delay retirement of their fleets, a transportation consultant said.

President Obama signed the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act into law Jan. 4.

Less-than-truckload carrier Southeastern Freight Lines, Lexington, S.C., opened a new logistics division Jan. 4 to provide shippers with services in dry van, refrigerated and flatbed truckload, expedited delivery, intermodal drayage, brokerage, air freight and distribution.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would extend a program of grants and loans to reduce diesel emissions.

American Trucking Associations last week asked the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to facilitate the use of consolidation bins in transporting small packages of hazmat materials.

Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced a bill that would reauthorize a voluntary national and state-level grant and loan program to reduce diesel emissions.