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When are they going to get competent people to run the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration? We have to be qualified to drive and be responsible for our businesses, or we aren’t working. Why aren’t the people making the rules under the same standards?

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said he does not think Congress will lift the federal 80,000-pound weight limit for trucks or change existing regulations concerning the use of triple trailers on the federal highway system.

The Transportation Department’s transportation services index for April rose 0.1% from March, though the index’s freight component fell, DOT said Tuesday.

American Trucking Associations said it will join with a sleep research firm to study the effects of last year’s change to the rule governing truck drivers’ use of sleeper berths.

The United States and Mexico are “very close” to completing an agreement to allow U.S. inspectors to examine Mexican fleet operations in Mexico, the last hurdle before opening the border to Mexican carriers, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said.

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Traffic will be funneled to one lane northbound on Interstate 95 south of Washington, D.C. — a corridor through which 15,000 to 17,000 commercial vehicles pass daily — starting at 8 p.m. Friday through the early morning hours Monday, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project said.

Pittsburgh-based Transport Investments said it signed a letter of intent to buy Truckers Express Inc., based in Missoula, Mont. Terms were not disclosed.

Segmentz said Tuesday that its shareholders overwhelmingly approved the company’s name change to Express-1 Expedited Solutions Inc.

Navistar International Corp. reiterated late Monday that it expects to earn $5.38 per share this year and said it sees a strong 2007 despite a potential drop in Class 8 sales.