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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.With a congressional deadline to rewrite the existing driver hours-of-service rules looming just six weeks away, industry sources said they believe the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new regulations would be very similar to the current rules.

Con-Way to Provide Electronic Shipment Notifications • Clean Diesel Technologies Shows Wider 2Q Loss • FCC Approves Sprint, Nextel Merger • Estes Express Lines Redesigns Web Site • And more . . .

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Move over, text-messaging. Here come audio and visual route directions on your cellular telephone, linked to global-positioning satellites high in the sky.

Winners of state championship truck driving contests, each seeking to prove that he or she is the safest, most capable and most conscientious driver in his or her respective equipment categories, are soon to converge on Tampa, Fla., for the 68th annual National Truck Driving Championships, Aug. 16-20.

Trucking and logistics company US 1 Industries Inc. said Monday its second-quarter net income was $516,075, up from $99,883 in the same quarter last year.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The title of the new federal highway bill is a real lulu — nearly as massive and complicated as the six-year funding package itself.

Americans’ confidence in the economy fell in August, due mostly to higher fuel prices, according to the University of Michigan’s preliminary consumer sentiment index.

Freight rail company CSX Corp. said Thursday it planned to expand capacity on its existing rail lines between Chicago and Florida and between Albany, N.Y., and New York City. br clear = all>

PierPass Inc. said that during the first two weeks of its OffPeak program that encourages trucks to enter and exit the port at night and on Saturday s to relieve congestion around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The U.S. trade deficit widened to $58.8 billion in June as companies imported more crude oil and imports from China increased to a new record.