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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remains confident there will be an adequate number of certified medical examiners in six weeks when the U.S. government supplants individual states’ approaches to truck drivers’ physical exams, an agency official said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Anne Ferro, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, heard the concerns of truck drivers, fleet owners and brokers about such issues as electronic logging and knowledge testing for newcomers, as well as the controversial hours-of-service restart provision during the Mid-America Trucking Show here.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has signed into law a measure that makes the state the 40th to protect truckers from contracts that force them to assume total liability for accidents whether they are at fault.

The Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index rose to 53.1 in March from 51.6 the prior month, the Tempe, Ariz.-based group said April 3.

Federal transportation safety regulators ordered an Illinois trucking company to cease its commercial operations after an investigation found drivers were on the road for long stretches of time that posed an “imminent hazard to public safety.”

WASHINGTON — A House plan put forth by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would mandate that transfers made to the Highway Trust Fund — a main source of federal aid to states for road and transit programs that is months away from running out of money — would have to come from savings in accounts elsewhere in the budget.

WASHINGTON — The top transportation appropriator in the House on April 3 called into question the benefits of a rule that limits work hours for truckers, in a hearing examining the Obama administration’s fiscal 2015 budget request for transportation agencies.

Kentucky lawmakers have passed a bill that would protect truckers from having to assume all liability for accidents regardless of whether they are to blame.