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Teamsters union members will be voting today on a tentative agreement reached with Wawa Food Markets that would end their bitter 10-day strike in five states.

The State of Maryland may ask Giant Food truck drivers who took part in a strike three years ago to repay the state about $1.4 million in unemployment insurance benefits.

In the news this morning: Truck hits school bus on I-630 in Ark.; Quebec truckers protest injunctions; and Union County, N.J. officials target Port Newark trucks to protest land deal.

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to create the a separate truck safety agency within the Department of Transportation and beef up truck and bus safety on other fronts.

This afternoon's headlines: M.S. Carriers reports increases in revenue, earnings; Trucks continue to operate, but labor unrest looms over Seattle port; and Werner reports increased revenues.

In what some are calling the most significant development in federal trucking oversight in nearly 20 years, Congress is poised to establish a separate motor carrier safety agency.

The Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety will go out of business if President Clinton signs a transportation spending bill that received final approval from Congress Oct. 4.

The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed phase one of its plan to drastically curtail truck pollution within the next decade.

Truckers who feel as if they’re the ones who will end up paying for a $1 billion settlement between the nation’s six largest diesel engine makers and the Environmental Protection Agency are suing the engine producers.

As hard as it was to kill the Oregon weight-distance tax, it may be equally tough to keep it dead, now that oppenents are trying force a public vote on the tax's repeal.