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Mexican Trucks Program Showing Few Trips

A government report on the Department of Transportation’s program to allow Mexican trucks into the United States said that too few trips have been taken to be statistically valid.

March 11, 2008

Letters to the Editor: HOS, Crash Statistics, No Driver Shortage, Aerodynamics

I have been driving for 46 years and have been with Roadway 25 years. I think the 11-hour rule is very good. It gives you some flexibility if you have any delays.

March 10, 2008

Sen. Dorgan Tells Peters DOT is ‘Arrogant’ for Refusing to Block Cross-Border Funding

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) told Transportation Secretary Mary Peters that her department was “arrogant†in its refusal to go along with what he said Congress intended when it prohibited funding for the DOT’s controversial U.S.-Mexico border trucking program.

March 10, 2008

Peters Urges Congress to Back Mexican Trucks Program

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Monday that Congress should not halt efforts of a cross-border trucking program between the United States and Mexico.

March 10, 2008

Midwest Hit By Snowstorm

Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from a big storm system that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow, the Associated Press reported.

March 10, 2008

Trimac Reports Fourth-Quarter Profit

Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund said its fourth-quarter net earnings were C$2.2 million or about 9 cents per unit, compared with C$3.1 million or 8 cents a year earlier.

March 10, 2008

Gas Jumps to $3.20 a Gallon

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline at U.S. filling stations rose 9 cents in the past two weeks to $3.20 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations.

March 10, 2008

Diesel Soars 16.1¢ to $3.819; Gasoline Sets Record $3.225

The price of retail diesel fuel jumped 16.1 cents to a third straight record, reaching a national average of $3.819 a gallon, and gasoline hit a new record, the Department of Energy said Monday.

March 11, 2008

CARB Set to Distribute $25 Million in Truck Retrofit, Replacement Grants

California environmental regulators said they will soon decide how to distribute early grants totaling $25 million for truck retrofits and replacements to help reduce diesel emissions at the state’s ports and intermodal facilities.

March 10, 2008