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Global economic improvement allowed FedEx Corp. to pull in 11% more quarterly revenue, but the carrier saw its net income drop by 3%, as it had to battle severe winter weather, soaring fuel costs and $43 million of integration costs at its less-than-truckload unit.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of some of its authority but would not block a proposal to regulate heavy- and medium-duty truck greenhouse gas emissions.

SAN DIEGO — The United States’ new cross-border trucking initiative with Mexico will be a small-scale, “self-limiting” program because Mexican carriers will have to meet a strict set of safety standards to operate in the United States, the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator said.

The average price of U.S. retail diesel rose for the 15th consecutive week, bumping up another 3.7 cents to $3.908 a gallon, nearly $1 higher than the comparable week of last year, according to the Department of Energy.

Trucking industry officials have hailed congressional action to repeal an unpopular Internal Revenue Service reporting requirement contained in the 2010 health-care reform law and said they were confident Congress would approve repeal.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told carriers last week that letters warning about possible loss of operating authority after notifying the agency of cargo insurance cancellations were sent in error.

WASHINGTON — Trucking is burdened with “regulatory overload,” an American Trucking Associations official told a panel of Department of Transportation officials.

Schneider National Inc., Ruan Transport Corp., Falcon Transport Co., and Werner Enterprises know from experience that military veterans make valuable employees. These firms actively recruit them to fill not only driver jobs but management posts as well.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted last week to not support the Obama administration’s transportation budget proposals because administration officials have not identified revenue sources to fund multibillion dollar increases for existing and new programs.

SAN DIEGO — An industry consensus appears to be emerging in support of electronic logging devices to monitor driver hours but not truck performance, as the Truckload Carriers Association endorsed that technology last week and American Trucking Associations moved in the same direction.