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News Briefs - May 14
Teamsters to Vote on UPS Strike Authorization • EPA Investigating Possible Pre-Buying, Tribune Reports • FMCSA Toughens Safety Standards for New Carriers • Colorado Bill Sets Up Toll Roads • And more...
May 14, 2002
Three experts from Transport Enterprise Leasing discuss strategies for buying and selling trucks amid regulatory shifts, trade tensions and economic uncertainty.
ATA Mobilizes in Terror War
The American Trucking Associations and other North American trucking groups unveiled a plan Monday that mobilizes truck drivers to prevent terrorists from using trucks as weapons.
May 13, 2002Editorial: Opening the Border
Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The Mexicans still aren’t coming. In a gesture of neighborly good will, President George W. Bush, not long after taking office, promised his friend and counterpart, Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, to get international trucking between the United States and Mexico going by the first of June, erasing a moratorium against Mexican truckers imposed unilaterally by the Clinton administration nearly seven years ago.
May 13, 2002Truck Firms Slow to Accept Electonic Clearance Systems
Three organizations provide electronic systems that enable trucks equipped with transponders to zip past ports of entry and weigh stations in 30 states without stopping, yet the service has been embraced by only a small portion of the nation’s interstate truckers.
May 13, 2002News Briefs - May 13
Oregon Task Forces Says Bridges Need Immediate Work • Bush Signs Farm Bill • Oil Demand Will Pick Up, IEA Says • DaimlerChrysler Considering Purchase of Mitsubishi Truck Unit • And more...
May 13, 2002Diesel Price Down 0.6 Cent to $1.299
The average price of diesel fuel made its largest move in three weeks, slipping 0.6 cent per gallon, but continued to hover around the $1.30 mark, a report by the Department of Energy said Monday.
May 13, 2002DOT's Inspector General Cites CDL Fraud Problem
Federal and state officials are not doing enough "to defend against the alarming threat posed by individuals who seek to fraudulently obtain" commercial driver licenses, said a new report by the Department of Transportation's inspector general.
May 10, 2002PPI Slips in April; No Inflation in View
The Labor Department's index of prices paid to U.S. producers slipped 0.2% in April, after a 1% increase in March, suggesting that inflation continues to pose no threat to the economy.
May 10, 2002House Begins Reauthorization of Clean Air Act
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on energy and air quality began work last week on a bill to reauthorize the Clean Air Act of 1990, which regulates emissions from heavy-duty trucks, cars and other sources.
May 10, 2002Letter to the Editor: Local Politics
Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Paul Dempsey stated that the primary reason the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act failed was “local politics..
May 10, 2002