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Trucking managers in information technology and finance will meet jointly in Tampa, Fla., next month to explore opportunities for efficiency improvement through IT and strategies for handling significant tax changes expected at the end of 2012.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Low participation by Mexican carriers in the cross-border trucking program could lead to the resumption of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, an official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said.

Trucks carrying hazardous materials will be banned from traveling through Boston during most of the daytime under a policy approved by Massachusetts state officials last week, the Boston Globe reported.

Over the next five years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to significantly reduce truck-related crash fatality rates by developing new credentialing and driver safety fitness standards, expanding its regulatory reach to include shippers and other industry players and creating new programs aimed at weeding out high-risk motor carriers.

There was some interesting advice offered by two of our industry’s best-known economists last week to fleet executives who were attending the National Tank Truck Carriers annual conference in San Francisco.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. plans to refinance $6.4 billion in debt over the next two years, Bloomberg reported.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Several dozen truck drivers, motor carriers and law enforcement officers gave federal regulators a candid array of opinions on whether a planned electronic logging device mandate would be properly used as a safety device and fleet productivity tool.

Truck stop electrification vendor Shorepower Technologies said its plug-in power service is now available at three new locations in Nebraska and Iowa.

Eight of nine publicly traded trucking fleets reporting quarterly earnings last week achieved improved results, relying on either higher rates or volume increases, or both.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Swift Transportation Inc. opposes the trucking industry’s lobbying efforts toward allowing heavier trucks on interstate highways in the United States, the company’s CEO told a gathering of Canadian trucking executives.