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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended by 15 days the deadline for public comment on its proposed enhancements to the display information on the agency’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program website.

Consumer prices did not change in November from the previous month, the Labor Department reported Dec. 17.

A majority of all drivers support mandating speed-limiting devices on trucks, according to the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey on driver attitudes and behavior.

American Trucking Associations and the Minnesota Trucking Association are asking the federal government to do a pilot project to study whether greater flexibility in hours-of service-rules for truck drivers who use sleeper berths would affect highway safety.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 12 voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan budget deal that cuts $23 billion from the deficit and maintains current highway spending levels through fiscal year 2014.

The Federal Highway Administration is extending the deadline for public comments on its draft of a Primary Freight Network to Jan. 17, according to a notice in the Federal Register.

This Opinion piece appears in the Dec. 16 print edition of Transport Topics.

Some $13.6 trillion worth of goods were shipped in the United States in 2012 weighing a combined 11.7 billion tons, with trucks once again doing a majority of the work, according to a federal report.

U.S. diesel prices dipped 0.4 cent to a national average of $3.879 a gallon, ending two weeks of increases that were the fuel’s only upturns in the past three months, the Department of Energy reported Dec. 9.