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TT File PhotoThe fate of James P. Hoffa (pictured, middle) is in the hands of an election appeals master. Kenneth Conboy heard appeals this week from challenger Tom Leedham and representatives of the TDU to block Hoffa’s election as Teamsters president.

There’s a new trucking lobbyist on the block, and his name is Joe Hart.

TT File PhotoThe South Carolina Department of Transportation is considering putting tolls on its Interstates to make up for $9.4 billion shortfall in highway maintenance funding.

An Oklahoma state senator wants to finance railroad growth by taxing truckers at the gas pump.

Maine Gov. Angus King is less than enthused by an alternative advanced by three Republican senators to the 5 cent gasoline tax increase he supports.

Federal trucking regulators will hold a conference this spring on new eye-based technology to measure driver alertness.

Tax breaks provided railroads for a quarter of a century in exchange for improvements to their lines should be reduced, the South Dakota House decided Tuesday.

Transport Topics Editor Howard S. Abramson and national affairs correspondent David Barnes recently interviewed Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.

The ball is now in American Trucking Associations’ court. That’s the word from the 13 state trucking association executives that met in Dallas Jan. 30.