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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has installed 43 gates on Interstates to keep motorists off the road when winter weather gets too rough.

Trucking must fight efforts in Congress to strangle its productivity. That is why American Trucking Associations will push for state flexibility to fill in the gaps in the network for longer combination vehicles and resist any attempts to undercut vehicle dimensions, according to ATA President Walter B. McCormick Jr.

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t appropriately enforcing its new rules on upgrading underground fuel storage tanks, according to Natso Inc.

ANR Advance Transportation appears to be out of business, despite denials by an official of the Milwaukee-based carrier.

Moving to fill vacancies on the Surface Transportation Board, the White House appointed William Clyburn Jr. to a partial term of one year.

The goal of Ryder Integrated Logistics’ new president, Raymond B. Greer, is to make the company the first true global provider of supply chain management services.

Due to an overwhelming public response, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has withdrawn proposed rule changes that trucking company owners feared would have increased enforcement powers and required them to address ergonomic hazards.

Trucking safety is under close scrutiny in North Carolina, where two groups’ work on how to improve the state’s highways and roads could lead to big changes for truckers.

Liquid Transport Corp, Indianapolis, will expand its bulk chemical and petroleum hauling business in the upper Midwest with the purchase of Mississippi Transport of Stillwater, Minn.