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Flow of Global Trade Mostly Unaffected By New Security Rules • Iowa to Test Trucks for Radioactive Cargo • Terror Suspect Believed to Have Gotten CDL

Price of Crude Oil Closes at One-Month High in N.Y. • ISM Services Sector Expands at Slower Pace in June • Job-Cut Announcements Fall to Lowest Level in a Year • Knight Transportation Announces Stock Split • And more...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration should change some of its definitions of injury and not record commercial motor vehicle accident information when the agency institutes its Site Specific Targeting Enforcement Program, American Trucking Associations said.

With another 90% reduction in particulate matter from diesel engines due by 2007, the freight-hauling industry soon will be fielding new soot-filtering technology for both heavy- and medium-duty power plants.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith new generations of computer systems arriving faster than ever, motor carriers must train a large, scattered and mobile workforce without draining profits and tying up manpower.

Oregon Offers Ton-Mile Filing Online • Pa. to Offer Anti-Idling Funds to Fleets • EPA Announces Grant to Reduce Bus Emissions in Mexico

DALLAS — At its first stand-alone meeting in two years outside of American Trucking Associations’ annual management conference, the National Accounting and Finance Council board said it planned to reorganize the group to become more flexible and provide more input into ATA planning.

The Department of Transportation said Tuesday its Transportation Services Index rose 0.8% in April to a record 124.4, while the freight TSI also hit a new high.

The pace of hiring slowed in June and the manufacturing sector cut jobs for the first time in five months, the Labor Department reported Friday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced plans last week to require carriers of hazardous materials to apply for federal permits to carry certain goods — including explosives and radioactive material — beginning Jan. 1.