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The Department of Transportation will seek assistance from state agencies in a study of the safety performance of overweight heavy trucks — those that run heavy both with permits and those that run overweight illegally.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation that as of 2014 repeals the state’s 56-year-old property tax on trucks, tractors and trailers.

Navajo Express said it has expanded the operations of its dry van division, Digby Truck Lines, between the California coast and the Pacific Northwest.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in April at the slowest rate in five months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.

Kulwant Singh Gill has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in federal prison for defrauding dozens of motor carriers and brokers out of nearly $500,000.

More than any other factor, legislation has defined the modern European commercial vehicle. Changes in laws regarding vehicle height and length, payload, fuel economy and emissions mean that operators and manufacturers all have to work within an increasingly inflexible legislative environment.

For 18 years, regulators have been wrestling with a congressional mandate to issue a rule prohibiting trucks from proceeding into railroad crossings unless there is adequate space on the other side to avoid getting trapped on the tracks.

Consumer confidence decreased this month, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.