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Traffic congestion costs drivers more than $100 billion annually in wasted fuel and lost time, and American drivers waste about 1.9 billion gallons annually sitting in traffic, according to a new Treasury Department report.

In the latest case of a freight broker being found liable for the acts of a third party, Heyl Logistics Inc. has been found guilty of negligence in a 2008 fatal accident.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Permanent repair kits for defective ATR-6 traction-relay brake valves are moving to truck makers, executives of Bendix Commercial Vehicle System said.

P.A.M. Transportation Services said its board of directors has approved a special dividend of $1 per share.

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 14.3% last year from 2010, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay its plans to implement a much-anticipated Compliance, Safety, Accountability program process that would have allowed carriers to seek an accountability review of crashes that went on their safety records, a top American Trucking Associations safety executive said.

Federal regulators have bowed to anti-truck groups and unfairly called into question the integrity of police accident reports by delaying development of a process that could remove unpreventable crashes from carriers’ safety records, American Trucking Associations officials said Tuesday.

Gene Scoggins, president of the NationaLease truck-leasing organization, is retiring after 37 years in the transportation industry.

Prime Inc. President Robert Low puts his commitment to improving truckers’ health on the line at lunchtime, playing full-court basketball with co-workers.