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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed revising its rules that govern how cargo is secured on flatbed trailers. The regulations, which went into effect in January 2004, cover how carriers must tie down or secure materials such as lumber, metal and automobiles.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Senate Wednesday approved a measure avoiding mandatory reductions of so-called “greenhouse gases” and boosted support for cleaner energy sources, news services reported.

Trucking company financial officers said they would meet in Nashville, Tenn., June 26-28 to discuss capital expenditures, driver wages, fuel, insurance and compliance issues at the annual meeting of the National Accounting & Finance Council of American Trucking Associations.

More Americans will travel around the Fourth of July than have ever traveled for a holiday weekend, according to AAA's holiday travel forecast released Wednesday.

Crude oil prices fell nearly $1 a barrel Wednesday despite a Department of Energy report that showed crude inventories had declined in the past week, news services reported.

Con-Way Transportation Services said Wednesday it will expand its operations in Mexico.

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Senate negotiators proposed a compromise $290 billion plan for a long-term highway bill with the House, hoping to break an impasse that has stalled action on the bill for nearly two years, the Associated Press reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he price of retail diesel fuel rose 3.7 cents to $2.313 a gallon, just 0.3 cents below the record high reached April 11, the Department of Energy said Monday.