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Transport Topics is offering a free downloadable report on CSA 2010, the government’s new safety regime for the trucking industry.

American Trucking Associations and other business groups are urging the Senate to move forward with a bill that would create a research program to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy- and medium-duty trucks.

Despite lean budgets and staff cuts because of the recession, more than 9,000 state, federal and provincial law enforcement officers are expected to be deployed at 1,500 locations across North America to inspect commercial trucks and buses during the annual Roadcheck event from June 8-10.

April trailer orders rose 3% from 2009 levels, and the backlog at trailer factories working to fill those orders rose to its highest level in 20 months as demand for equipment continued to exceed build rates, ACT Research Co. reported.

Thomas Nyhan, executive director of the Central States Pension Fund, told a Senate committee that the fund, which provides retirement benefits for a number of unionized trucking companies, will become insolvent without changes to federal law.

U.S. efforts to resolve the ongoing dispute with Mexico over cross-border trucking have stalled, rankling officials on both sides of the border.

Paint manufacturers and suppliers are notifying contractors and transportation officials around the country that market forces and a scarcity of raw materials are causing shortages of white and yellow road paint used to mark highway lanes.

Trucking will continue to be “an essential component” of the nation’s freight system, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves, responding to Graves’ recent letter complaining of “misleading” statements about trucking by LaHood and others in DOT.