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A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration study released May 12 concludes that longhaul trucks with electronic logging devices had significantly lower crash rates than those without them.

Federal government and university researchers said they are on schedule to complete a congressionally mandated truck size and weight study by mid-November.

A proposed rule that would prohibit carriers, shippers and brokers from coercing truck drivers to violate safety regulations has cleared a review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the availability of $9 million in grant funding for projects designed to reduce pollution and emissions exposure from the nation’s fleet of diesel engines.

A Wyoming trucking company is facing fines of nearly $1 million for allegations of dumping oil drilling waste on a country road in North Dakota, state mining officials said.

The current financial responsibility minimum of $750,000 for motor carriers is inadequate to meet the costs of some crashes, according to a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration report released April 18.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will appeal an April 16 decision by an Illinois administrative law judge that allowed a trucking company involved in a January crash that killed a tollway worker and seriously injured a state trooper to resume operations, an FMCSA spokesman said.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is seeking comment on two separate American Trucking Associations’ federal preemption petitions claiming that regulatory requirements for hazardous materials hauling in Pittsburgh and New York City impose unfair burdens on hazmat carriers.

Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation recently toured three commercial truck dealerships to learn more about the industry and the cost of regulatory actions on dealers, American Truck Dealers said.