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Xtra Lease Goes Online To Recruit Customers

Xtra Lease is promoting its new site on the World Wide Web with a marketing campaign that allows the trailer leasing company to gather information on potential customers in exchange for contributing money to Trucker Buddy.

May 19, 1999

Container Roadability Comment Time Extended

The Federal Highway Administration has extended until Aug. 30 the deadline for comments on its proposed rulemaking regarding the roadworthiness of intermodal equipment.

May 19, 1999

Kansas Eases Burden Of Road Bill on Truckers

Kansas truckers scored a small victory when the states legislature passed a transportation plan that relies on fuel taxes, bond sales and the diversion of funds from other sources to pay for $12 billion in infrastructure improvements.

May 19, 1999

Cirillo Does Not Support Separate Trucking Agency

The government's top motor carrier safety regulator thinks setting a dedicated trucking agency apart from the highway office is not a good idea.

May 19, 1999

Cochrane Keeps Zest for Trucking

When J. Harwood Cochrane founded truckload carrier Highway Express in 1991, he was starting his "second career" with high hopes.

May 19, 1999

FHWA To Review Self-Insurance

The Federal Highway Administration is reviewing self-insurance standards for trucking companies.

May 19, 1999

Federal Weight-Distance Tax Proposed

Legislation replacing three federal truck taxes with a weight-distance tax was proposed May 13 by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Chafee (R-RI).

May 19, 1999

Central Freight to Go Public

Central Freight Lines, a storied Texas-based regional less-than-truckload carrier, is planning the first initial public offering by a trucking company in more than a year.

May 19, 1999

Sulfur in Diesel Targeted by EPA

Dramatic reduction of diesels sulfur content is one of the linchpins of an Environmental Protection Agency initiative to set new quality requirements for the fuel.

May 19, 1999

Bias of Road Laws Against Truckers Drives Strike Call

Organizers of a July 5 trucker strike said they have been getting between 20 and 40 inquiries a day from drivers wanting to know more about the planned job action.

May 19, 1999