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An amendment to pending legislation to reauthorize highway spending for the next six years would substantially increase fines for hours-of-service and out-of-service violations and hold some managers responsible if they order or allow violations.

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LAS VEGAS — In the wake of Congress’ extension of the current hours-of-service rules for one year, trucking officials said they would provide data on the rules’ effect and the possible effect of the government’s proposal to use electronic onboard recorders to replace driver logbooks.

PHILADELPHIA — Constraints on freight-hauling capacity, combined with rising fuel and labor costs and the trend by manufacturers to outsource work to China and other less-expensive areas, are making it increasingly difficult to control distribution costs, said officials and industry analysts at the Council of Logistics Management conference here last week.

Long delays were reported at border crossings between the United States and Ontario, Canada, on Thursday as a nationwide strike of public employees in Canada continued.

LAS VEGAS — Outgoing American Trucking Associations Chairman Fred Burns Jr. said that another 12 to 15 states are expected to provide “significant tort reform” in the coming year, joining 26 other states that already have done so.

The price of crude oil in New York set a new high on Thursday after a report from the U.S. Department of Energy showed that U.S. supplies of distillate fuels, including heating oil and diesel, decreased in the week ended Oct. 8, Bloomberg reported.

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LAS VEGAS — In addition to changes to driver hours-of-service rules, the government’s truck safety agency will push out a host of regulations over the next several years and trucking executives should be prepared to offer input, the agency’s head said.