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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s anticipated draft rules for allowing Mexican trucks into the country have been released from the Office of Management and Budget, and will be published in Wednesday’s Federal Register..

The National Association of Purchasing Management said Tuesday its overall U.S. factory activity index for April was 43.2, up 0.1 from March but still below the key level of 50 to indicate the manufacturing sector was shrinking for the ninth straight month.

Federal job safety inspectors will no longer fine truckers for failing to place wheel chocks to stop trailers from rolling because trucking safety regulations have been held to supersede the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, officials said.

Flooding in the upper Mississippi River valley halted barge shipping and interrupted rail traffic but apparently had not forced a substantial change in transportation patterns in trucking’s favor as of late last week.

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Executives of heavy truck engine maker Cummins Inc. said they would go to court, if necessary, to force competitors to abide by terms of a 1998 federal court consent decree that requires the group produce cleaner engines by October 2002.

WASHINGTON — Michael P. Jackson, nominated to be Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s deputy, is a well-qualified shoo-in for the job, according to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

With employers facing labor shortages and unprecedented worker mobility, a stable, productive workforce of drivers, owner-operators and support employees is relatively unusual in the rapidly changing trucking industry.

The bad news continues to pile up across the trucking sector and related businesses from the effects of a weak U.S. economy and resurgent energy costs.