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Some trucking industry executives predicted the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program was going to be a “game changer” for the industry. They were right.

Automakers may forego as much as $4 billion a year in light truck sales to prevent states led by California from setting their own mileage standards, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Trucking passes more costs onto society than do other modes of freight transportation, according to a report from the government’s financial investigative agency.

State transportation officials in Oregon and Washington are recommending a deck truss design for a new Interstate 5 bridge planned to span the Columbia River between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., the Associated Press reported.

States are equipping roadside inspectors with carrier-specific information that could lead to more targeted inspections under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Compli­ance, Safety, Ac­countability program.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The U.S. Transportation Department’s new safety program is putting pressure on intermodal fleets, which say their safety records are being hurt in part by violations that were supposed to be rectified by new federal chassis safety rules.

Nearly 17 years after Congress ordered federal regulators to put in writing that motor vehicles are not to park on railroad tracks while waiting for the traffic to clear or a light to turn green, two agencies said they have rectified a series of “misunderstandings” with state transportation officials and have offered a new proposal.

Consumer confidence rose to a three-year high in February, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.