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R.I. Gov. Vetoes 2-Cent Fuel Tax Hike • Steamship Exemption Hurts Truckers, Hoffa says • Rebound Pace Subdued, Fed's Broaddus Says • OPEC Secretary Says Crude Oil Prices May Fall • nd more...

Congressional Democrats are hailing President Bush’s proposal to create a new Cabinet-level Department of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security that will cut a swathe through eight existing agencies and draw from scores of other offices dealing with intelligence, border security and related responsibilities, news services reported.

A plan for "truck freeways" on interstate highways that would allow heavier, longer trucks, but would keep them apart from cars, has drawn a measure of qualified support from the American Trucking Associations.

The Department of Transportation plans to award a two-year, $2.5 million contract to study technology that could enhance the security of hazardous materials shipments.

With President Bush’s approval in February of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation’s permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel rods, the battle is now joined over how the material will be transported to the underground repository, scheduled to begin operation in 2010.

California has yet to decide how to punish any diesel engine makers whose new models exceed Oct. 1 federal standards for nitrogen oxide emissions, said a spokesman for California’s Environmental Protection Agency..

$54 Million in Grants Headed to U.S.-Mexico Border • FedEx Sees Growth in Ground Unit • ISM Services Index Rises Again • Cargo Airport to Serve Twin Cities Eyed • And more...

The American Trucking Associations will seek to postpone – or lessen the effects of – an Oct. 1, 2002 deadline for new, lower-emitting truck engines dictated by a series of 1998 consent decrees.

Engine maker Cummins Inc. said it is selling few units of its new heavy-duty model, even though it is the only one the federal government has certified that meets new pollution standards that take effect Oct. 1.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The fiasco over the next generation of heavy-duty diesel engines that the Environmental Protection Agency has mandated for the trucking industry shows no sign of abating. And the losers could be all of us.