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NHTSA Issues Tougher Brake Requirements

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week issued its long-awaited proposal to cut the required stopping distance for heavy-duty trucks.

December 28, 2005

Hazmat Transporters Faced Bans, Expanded Checks in '05

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. or transporters of hazardous materials, 2005 will be remembered as a year of change.

December 28, 2005

Mediator Rejects Pilots' Release from UPS Contract Talks

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he National Mediation Board Wednesday rejected a request from the Independent Pilots Association to be released from mediated contract talks with UPS Inc.

December 28, 2005

NYC Mayor Says Transit Strike's Cost Reached $1 Billion

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ast week’s three-day transit strike in New York City cost businesses $1 billion in revenue, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

December 27, 2005

Minn. Temporarily Suspends Biodiesel Law Over Filter Concerns

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. innesota truckers will get a three-week reprieve from the state’s two-month-old law requiring 2% biodiesel blend with diesel, following complaints that the soybean-based fuel is clogging fuel filters, particularly in cold weather, the Associated Press reported.

December 27, 2005

Holiday Consumer Spending Up 8.7% Over Last Year

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. onsumer spending during the recent holiday season rose 8.7% over last year, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

December 27, 2005

Technology Briefs - Dec. 20 - Dec. 26

McLeod, Maptuit Set Partnership • EU Eyes Stricter Emissions Standards on Cars, Trucks • German Truck Tolls Raise $3.4 Billion

December 27, 2005

Mediators Set Recess on Talks Between UPS, Pilots

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. PS Inc. said Saturday that federal mediators recessed contract talks with its pilots union indefinitely, one day after the union sought a release from the three-year-old negotiations.

December 27, 2005

Technology Improved Security, Flow of Cross-Border Traffic

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ross-border trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico saw an in-creased reliance on technology in 2005 to facilitate the accounting and paperwork needed to expedite freight moving between the three countries, as well as to monitor trucks and their goods for security purposes.

December 27, 2005

Fleets Concerned About ’07 Engine Delays, Costs

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>With new emission standards for trucks to take effect just over a year from now, trucking companies remained skeptical that the introduction of 2007-model engines would be the smooth-sailing event that engine manufacturers had promised.

December 27, 2005