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Nearly 17 years after Congress ordered federal regulators to put in writing that motor vehicles are not to park on railroad tracks while waiting for the traffic to clear or a light to turn green, two agencies said they have rectified a series of “misunderstandings” with state transportation officials and have offered a new proposal.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The U.S. Transportation Department’s new safety program is putting pressure on intermodal fleets, which say their safety records are being hurt in part by violations that were supposed to be rectified by new federal chassis safety rules.

Consumer confidence rose to a three-year high in February, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The Texas Transportation Commission has voted to lower truck tolls on two Austin-area highways in an attempt to encourage trucks to use them.

U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter, a smaller rate than the previous estimate, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Transportation to study and establish a maximum number of hours that drivers may be detained at loading docks without being compensated.

Consumer confidence hit its highest level in three years in February, the New York-based Conference Board reported Tuesday.

I don’t understand how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program got going without all the pitfalls being known ahead of time.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Transportation Department’s new proposed hours-of-service rule is too complex, rigid, and would reduce the productivity of motor carriers, while making highways no safer, trucking industry and trade association executives and truck drivers told federal regulators last week.

President Barack Obama’s transportation reauthorization proposal would increase spending on roads and bridges over the next six years to $336 billion, a 48% increase over the $227 billion in the previous federal reauthorization package.