ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

The Environmental Protection Agency was criticized last week by a powerful House committee chairman for not calling diesel engine manufacturers on the carpet soon enough to prevent millions of tons of excess pollution from entering the atmosphere.

Hub Group is spinning off its non-asset-based logistics business.

American Trucking Associations will argue April 7 against the proposed ergonomics standard in development by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but it was one of trucking’s biggest customers that opposed the regulation on March 28.

The Surface Transportation Board hopes this week to begin the process of developing new rules for how it handles proposed rail mergers.

It’s going to get a lot simpler to know which state agency truckers and other drivers should turn to in Georgia if Gov. Roy Barnes signs recently passed legislation.

New York’s state trucking association is throwing its lobbying clout behind legislation that tackles several truck safety issues, including drug and alcohol testing, hours-of-service violations and responsibility for the condition of containers and chassis.

Twenty-two years after helping to create the Truck Renting and Leasing Association, its president is getting ready to step aside — for the second time.

Another truckload carrier is looking to the Internet for salvation.

Yet another state is coming to its senses and changing its mind about weight-distance taxes. The Idaho Senate voted to replace its $40 million-a-year levy with an increase in truck registration fees. The operator of an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer traveling 100,000 miles a year in the state would see his or her $4,700 ton-mile tax payments replaced with a $3,300 annual registration fee.