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A truck-related crash accountability system in Canada that has been in place for decades is drawing the attention of U.S. regulators and trucking industry officials.

Canadian bulk trucking company Trimac Transportation said it will acquire Ontario-based specialized bulk carrier Liquid Cargo Lines.

CRST International Inc. has announced the appointment of Andrew Hadland as president of Specialized Transportation Inc., one of CRST’s operating companies.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the comment period on its planned changes to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program by two months, through July 30.

Bigger trucks and a field study of the hours-of-service restart provision are among items American Trucking Associations said it wants included in any highway bill that emerges from the House-Senate conference committee weighing the legislation.

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.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Trucking’s leading advocacy group signaled growing unhappiness with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s handling of its new safety regime, and told the agency it needed to be more responsive to the industry.

Energy companies will need to keep up-to-date records to prove they are running the nation’s aging pipelines at safe pressures under a new set of federal guidelines, the Associated Press reported.

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