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Law enforcement officials said they may not strictly enforce the Transportation Department’s recent ban on texting by commercial drivers until the government issues a specific regulation rather than reinterpretations of current rules, officials told Transport Topics.

UPS Inc. said it benefited from a sharp increase in December air shipments out of Asia and a busy holiday season to post profits for the fourth quarter and the full year.

IdleAire Inc., which used federal funds to help build equipment to reduce truck-stop idling and increase drivers’ off-duty comfort, shut down abruptly on Jan. 29.

The Obama administration last week proposed a $4 billion “down payment” on a national infrastructure bank to supplement traditional highway funding, as part of its $78.8 billion budget proposal for the Department of Transportation.

The U.S. retail diesel average dropped 5.2 cents to $2.781 a gallon last week, the third straight weekly drop, the Department of Energy reported.

SAN DIEGO — CSA 2010, the new federal safety monitoring and rating system for motor carriers, is likely to be the most important and potentially disruptive federal policy development for trucking to come out of Washington this year, fleet executives and industry watchers said last week.

Volvo AB reported a fourth-quarter loss Friday but predicted that economic recovery will expand the market for its trucks, Bloomberg reported.

The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 9.7% in January, the lowest level since August, the Labor Department said Friday.

Regarding the letter with the headline “EOBRs Revisited,” there was a very interesting guest commentary about electronic onboard recorders recently in another publication, in which the author claimed only 2% of crashes occur after more than 10 hours of driving time.