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WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s diversion of resources to fight terrorism means that trucking firms should expect less help from the bureau in pursuing cargo theft, the FBI’s lead agent in that area said last week.

WASHINGTON — Shippers should get tough with trucking firms to help prevent cargo theft, including making them install costly security systems, two shipper representatives said at a conference here last week.

WASHINGTON — The most effective security measures are often simple precautions that anyone can learn — and high-tech systems do not provide complete solutions to cargo theft problems, industry executives said last week.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. argo theft has been a perennial problem for the trucking industry, resulting in losses of at least $12 billion a year, according to industry experts. And the word coming out of a Washington, D.C., conference last week held little relief for carriers.

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The Maryland Transportation Authority took the first step toward raising tolls on several key trucking routes in that state at its Sept. 29 board meeting.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. roper heavy-vehicle collision investigations should go far beyond looking at the individual driver. The trucking company and its policies are an integral part in the process of putting a safe vehicle and driver out on the road.

Bob Pitcher, formerly the director of American Trucking Associations’ state law department, has returned to the association as vice president for state laws, restoring an ATA function that had been lost in recent years, federation officials said.