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The political bickering that has engulfed much of the federal government over the past months and months is apparently weighing heavily on the nation’s economy.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance, that country’s national trucking group, along with the provincial trucking associations, celebrated Canada’s National Trucking Week this year on Sept. 2-8. The weeklong observance honored the 400,000 Canadian men and women who keep the country’s freight moving.

The ongoing pilot program that allows approved Mexican fleets into the interior of the United States suffers from lax oversight that does not sufficiently ensure compliance with the program’s requirements, a federal auditor said in a report released last week.

NEW YORK — The wavering economy and mounting political uncertainty are combining to intensify the trucking’s struggle to maintain growth, industry executives and experts said.

Margo Oge, the high-level official for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who has spearheaded the agency’s efforts to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector, is retiring from the agency where she worked for more than three decades.

U.S. manufacturing activity fell to a three-year low in August, the Institute for Supply Management reported Tuesday.

Construction spending fell in July for the first time in four months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Let me understand you correctly: If a driver runs out of time 30 minutes from the yard and is on an electronic onboard recorder, “He either spends the night 20 miles from home or, more likely, breaks the law and comes to the yard anyway.”

It appears that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is listening to trucking, at least somewhat.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced it is moving ahead with changes to its safety ratings program in December, including stepping up hazardous materials compliance and eliminating a perceived enforcement bias against flatbed carriers.