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I wanted to write to thank you or your Digest item Wal-Mart Donates 35 Trucks to Food Banks in the Nov. 16 issue, p. 33. In this economy, it is refreshing to read a positive, goodwill article.

I contacted Wal-Mart to tell them and their CEO what a great job they did. Without trucks, all the goodness of America wouldnt be delivered.

January 4, 2010

Technology May Help Solve Congestion for Trucking

A recent study by one of the worlds largest makers of Global Positioning System navigation devices has concluded that Seattle is the most traffic-clogged city in the United States.

January 4, 2010

ATA Says It Will Seek a Summary Judgment in Dispute With L.A. Port at Jan. 11 Hearing

Lawyers for American Trucking Associations said they will ask a federal judge on Jan. 11 to forgo a trial in ATAs clean trucks lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles and instead to issue a summary judgment in their favor.

January 4, 2010

FMCSA Agrees to Delay Chassis Rule Six Months to Set Up Database System

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it was delaying some intermodal chassis safety requirements for six months to give operators of that equipment more time to create a database to track the condition of each chassis.

January 4, 2010

FMCSA Agrees to Delay Chassis Rule Six Months to Set Up Database System

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it was delaying some intermodal chassis safety requirements for six months to give operators of that equipment more time to create a database to track the condition of each chassis.

December 30, 2009

Trucking Hopes to Thrive in Economic Recovery, Overcome Anticipated U.S. Regulatory Onslaught

With the worst of the steepest economic downturn in decades apparently in the rearview mirror, trucking executives are shifting their focus to the recovery in 2010, while also bracing for what could be an onslaught of new safety and environmental regulations.

January 4, 2010

Fleet Execs Wary of CSA 2010

Some freight executives say they are concerned that the Department of Transportations new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 program which is intended to boost carrier and driver safety could be undermined by inaccurate data, flawed methodology and unintended commercial consequences when it begins in July.

January 4, 2010

Diesel Rises 0.6瞽 to $2.732

The average cost of a gallon of diesel in the United States rose for the first time in eight weeks, inching up 0.6 cent to $2.732 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

January 4, 2010

Truckload Drivers Staying Put

Driver turnover at large truckload carriers fell in the third quarter to 43% a year, the lowest level since American Trucking Associations began tracking the data in 1995.

January 4, 2010