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The trucking industry is criticizing a federal regulation issued last week that will require employers to hang posters informing workers about their rights to form and join unions.

Consumer confidence fell in August to its lowest mark since April 2009, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic onboard recorder 2010 final rule for motor carriers with significant hours-of-service violations does not protect truck drivers from potential harassment by their employers, a federal appeals court has ruled.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit recently against Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., saying that the carrier’s policy of not permitting drivers with a history of alcohol problems to return to driving, even after treatment, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. will use incremental improvements to its current selective catalytic reduction engines to meet new federal standards for limiting greenhouse gas emissions between now and 2017, a senior company engineer said.

Consumer confidence dropped in August to its lowest level since November 2008, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. economy grew at a 1% annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday, lowering an earlier estimate.

Air quality at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to significantly improve during 2010, each port registering a roughly 40% decline in diesel particulate matter emissions when compared to 2009, according to new port emissions inventory studies.

Facing a major restructuring and the closings of thousands of post offices, the U.S. Postal Service is ending its foray into less-than-truckload hauling on Sept. 19.

California’s attorney general announced a settlement last week with seven Southern California port terminal operators to resolve the state’s claims that residents near the ports were exposed to dangerous levels of diesel exhaust from the terminals.