°®¶¹´«Ã½

Commercial vehicle component maker Accuride Corp. said Thursday it lost $11.7 million, or 33 cents a share, in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $1.9 million, or 5 cents, a year ago.

The Washington State Department of Transportation said the respondents to its truck parking survey said overwhelmingly that there were not enough parking for trucks in the state, and were concerned about safe parking.

Enrollments in the federal Transportation Worker Identification Credential program at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., are lagging behind schedule, causing concern among port officials about a possible shortage of drivers when the TWIC is required for entry this fall.

A&R Logistics said Wednesday it acquired Pacific Chemical Distribution Corp. and its affiliate Pacific Bulk Transportation Co., for an undisclosed sum.

An American Trucking Associations official asked a congressional panel to set a national speed limit of 65 miles per hour, as part of a series of steps ATA said would support the trucking industry’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption and address the escalating cost of diesel.

The Department of °®¶¹´«Ã½land Security said it pushed back the enforcement date for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program to April 15, 2009, although some areas will need to comply sooner.

First-quarter U.S. worker productivity improved 2.2%, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Your front-page article April 7 about auxiliary power units possibly saving on fuel quoted an APU maker’s spokesman who stated (like many others I have seen) that idling truck engines use up to 1.8 gallons of fuel an hour.