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As California gas prices reached record levels, the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the City Council to revive a 2-year-old ordinance to lower gas prices.

TT File PhotoMembers of the moving industry are cleaning up their act to ward off more heavy-handed scrubbing from federal regulators and the news media.

The Clinton administration is working with Mexico to assure the safety of Mexican trucks operating in the United States, Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater said.

A trucking company owner and a truck driver have been indicted in connection with an accident that killed a couple from North Plainfield, N.J.

Diesel fuel prices continued to rise last week, making another leap of about 3 cents a gallon, and are closing in on thresholds that may trigger fuel surcharges in freight contracts.

The nation’s harshest trucking critic and the largest state trucking association have joined forces to oppose plans to open four southwestern states to increased truck traffic from Mexico until a variety of safety concerns are met.

Almost half of truckload carrier executives surveyed by Transport Topics during the Truckload Carriers Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas think federal and state truck safety laws need significant improvement.

The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference is stepping into the truck size and weight fray and trying to build a cooperative, rather than antagonistic, relationship with trucking.

For the Chinese, 1999 is the year of the rabbit. For the National Transportation Safety Board, this is the year of heavy vehicle safety.