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Rep. Frank Wolf will not give up his campaign to move jurisdiction over trucking’s most important federal agency, the Office of Motor Carriers, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. t a Capitol Hill press conference Oct. 21, the Virginia Republican vowed to resurrect the idea next year.

The proposed international accord to combat global warming could cost U.S. truckers up to $36 billion a year in added fuel costs, a 90% increase, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Con-Way Transportation Services, one of the fastest growing and most profitable freight carriers in the country, moved its corporate headquarters to Ann Arbor, Mich., and launched a new business to provide logistics services.

European Union truck drivers will be limited to a 48-hour work week if a proposal now being drafted by the European Commission in Brussels becomes law.

Consolidation continues to dominate the financial scene in trucking. In the past week alone, three truckload carriers, a leasing company, a distribution firm and a truck parts distributor announced deals.

Volvo Truck Corp. has temporarily stopped production of heavy trucks at its Curitiba, Brazil truck plant because of concerns the global economic crisis may visit Latin America’s biggest economy next.

It has been almost two years since the freighter Bright Field slammed into the wharf adjacent to the Riverwalk mall, which abuts the New Orleans Hilton hotel on the Mississippi River. But only minor changes have been made since then to improve safety and prevent a similar occurrence.

Rep. Frank Wolf’s angry: at American Trucking Associations, at most truckers and at his own party’s leadership.

Federal Highway Administrator Kenneth Wykle was expected to announce this morning the launch of a rulemaking that eventually would produce new hours of service for trucking. Instead, his deputy said the agency is seriously considering a "negotiated" rulemaking, which would bring together all interested parties to discuss regulatory reforms.