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California air regulators announced plans to require the owners of 1.25 million diesel engines to install filters to catch fine pollution particles.

When Pennsylvania officials and representatives of the state’s trucking industry hit the streets for a coordinated safety check, they handed out free goodies as well as out-of-service tickets.

Refrigerated carrier executive William Grojean says carriers in his sector are heading for a day of reckoning because of difficulties in getting rate increases and paying drivers enough.

Researchers are testing devices in truck cabs that monitor driver fatigue, aiming to eventually replace hours-of-service rules with a box that will allow truckers to drive until they are measurably tired.

Refrigerated carriers have laid out the battle plans for getting truckers in and out of the loading docks without the interminable delays that rankle drivers and sap carrier productivity and revenue.

California air regulators announced plans to require the owners of 1.25 million diesel engines to install filters to catch fine pollution particles.

When Pennsylvania officials and representatives of the state’s trucking industry hit the streets for a coordinated safety check, they handed out free goodies as well as out-of-service tickets.

The radar guns are out in full force in Milwaukee these days and lead-footed truckers who find themselves on the wrong side of a speeding ticket have an alliance of state officials, law enforcement and industry leaders to thank.

Amid some confusion over New Jersey’s prohibition against off-route interstate truck movements, state police handed out another 76 tickets to drivers, raising the of number of summonses above 150 since serious enforcement started May 20.

Trucks can keep cruising the Arizona deserts at the same speed as four-wheelers thanks to a state Department of Transportation study.