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The Department of Transportation’s new truck size and weight study is winning praise from the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks.

In a Christmas Eve notice, FHWA quietly unveiled the criteria for participating in a federal pilot program that will permit up to three states to charge tolls on interstate highways.

In hopes of improving its truck safety record, Quebec is creating a safety database and requiring all motor carriers that want to get into the province to complete a registration form by April 1.

So far, only three companies are taking advantage of a law passed last year allowing heavier trucks on selected Idaho roads.

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

Other states have attempted to offer toll discounts to get truckers off local roads and back on to the turnpikes, but starting in February the New Jersey Turnpike Authority will try something new — price breaks on diesel fuel.

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.