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The Environmental Protection Agency said it expects a draft of a model truck idling law aimed at helping state and local governments create more consistent idling laws to be released later this year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has certified Maddocks Systems’ TruckMate software package for tracking shipments between the United States and Canada, the company said.

SCS Transportation, the owner of two less-than-truckload carriers, settled a dispute with one of its major investors by placing a new member on the SCS board of directors, the two parties said Thursday.

American Trucking Associations sent to the California state Senate committees opposing a state bill on diesel particulate matter emission monitoring.

Segmentz Inc. Friday reported a fourth-quarter profit, turning around several quarters of losses, and its board approved the company’s name change to Express-1 Expediting, subject to shareholder approval.

Rail freight and intermodal traffic declined last week compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

In reading your article about South Carolina’s proposal that heavy trucks be exempt from tolls on Interstate 95, I can’t imagine anyone believing that if this happens to I-95 in South Carolina it won’t happen to other interstate highways across the United States.

The economy’s service sector growth rose last month, the Institute for Supply Management said Friday.

Consumer sentiment fell for a second straight month in February, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Vehicle-parts supplier Dana Corp. and its U.S. subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, following continuing production cuts by U.S. automakers, Bloomberg reported.