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Safety advocates — as well as survivors of truck-related accidents and relatives of victims — urged Congress to reduce the amount of time truck drivers could spend behind the wheel.

In trying to agree on a transportation spending bill for fiscal 2001, selected Senate and House members must also decide whether to put a clamp on the Department of Transportation’s hours-of-service rulemaking.

Changes in Canadian environmental clean air policy that would affect the trucking industry have met with cautious support from the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

FMCSA interim chief Clyde J. Hart told a congressional panel last week that revisions in the hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers are unlikely to be finalized by year-end.

A bus company’s legal argument has forced the Oregon Department of Transportation to stop shutting down truckers who fail to pay the state’s weight-distance tax.

Asche Transportation Services, the Shannon, Ill.-based parent of two refrigerated carriers, said it has struck a deal with Churchill Environmental & Industrial Equity Partners to get $7 million in exchange for a majority stake in Asche.

Relief could be on the way for trucking companies that can endure into the second half of this year, predicted the chief executive officer of M.S. Carriers.

Trucking companies that provide owner-operators with health insurance through plans for employees will be placing their businesses and employees in financial danger, according to an industry attorney.

In the news this morning: Fed to make decision on interest rates today; FedEx beats Wall Street on quarterly earnings; truck driver acquitted in fatal Idaho crash; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Fed holds interests rates steady, for now; FTC issues subpoenas in Midwest fuel price probe; possible Air Canada pilots strike could disrupt U.S.-Canada freight; and more.