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The California Air Resources Board, in a September staff report, proposed to require Class 8 trucks to be outfitted with fuel-efficiency technologies such as cab fairings, skirts, low-rolling-resistance tires and automatic tire-inflation systems by 2010.

Ryder System lowered its third-quarter and full-year earnings forecast Monday and said it would cut 300 jobs due to softness in the housing, construction and auto industries, the Associated Press reported.

Overall rail traffic rose a notch, but intermodal levels fell from a year ago for the week ended Saturday, the Association of American Railroads said.

The federal appeals court that struck down parts of the current driver hours-of-service rule has agreed to delay implementation of its decision for 90 days to give regulators time to address the problems the judges found.

UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union agreed Sept. 30 on a new five-year tentative contract that, among its provisions, would allow the parcel carrier to pay $6.1 billion to leave the union’s Central States Health & Welfare and Pension Funds.

American Trucking Associations members will focus on the business side of the industry at this year’s Management Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., ATA President Bill Graves said.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation said its president, Tim Kohl, is leaving the company and his position is being eliminated, Bloomberg reported.

The economy’s service sector growth slowed slightly in September from the previous month, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

PITTSBURGH — A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official said there are between 30 and 40 companies producing onboard recording devices that fail to meet FMCSA standards.

Tolling Interstate 80 under an act passed by both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed by Gov. Ed Rendell will have an enormous effect on the economy of Pennsylvania and the trucking industry as a whole.