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Trucking industry officials have filed comments opposing the California Air Resources Board’s plan to initiate a statewide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

American Trucking Associations said last week it filed a lawsuit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to force the agency to issue an overdue regulation covering the documents and other materials fleets need to maintain to verify drivers’ logbooks.

As the first 2010 trucks requiring diesel exhaust fluid begin to roll off production lines, executives with the nation’s truck stops said they are prepared to meet the demand.

U.S. heavy-duty truck sales in December topped 10,000 units for the only month in 2009, but the grand total for the year of 94,798 units was the lowest since 1983 and 29% below the 2008 level, WardsAuto.com reported.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Backers of the current driver hours-of-service rule far outnumbered opponents in the first of four scheduled public hearings held by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as it reviews the much-contested regulation.

The rate of fatalities in accidents involving trucks fell 12.3% in 2008 from the previous year — the largest year-to-year drop on record — to its lowest level on record, according to an American Trucking Associations analysis of Department of Transportation data.

Millions of Americans turn their personal goals into New Year’s resolutions. In a sense, trucking CEOs also make New Year’s resolutions for their firms: the annual operating plan. But while failing to keep individual resolutions is disappointing, when a trucking company leader fails to “make plan,” the financial results can be catastrophic.

Compliance and safety services provider RAIR said Friday that it has named JJ Singh as its new president and chief executive officer.

U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 1.3% last week compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads said.