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Trucking executives said the industry could see some benefits of the recently announced U.S.-Canadian trade agreement as early as this year.

An expert hired by the Canadian Trucking Alliance is disputing claims made by the Canadian renewable fuels industry that diesel fuel buyers would save dramatically if the federal government proceeds with a proposed biodiesel mandate on July 1.

Third-party logistics firms PenserSC and ICS Logistics said they have agreed to a trucking and transportation services contract.

After several years of anticipation throughout the trucking industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Transportation Safety Administration finally in October released their joint proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gases for the commercial transportation sector.

Please keep step-van drivers in the National Truck Driving Championships. I attended my first truck-driving rodeo two years ago because the step-van category was added, and I had a blast. Now, I’m hooked on NTDC.

Truck stop chain Flying J Inc. said it has started accepting Comdata payment cards at its 270 U.S. and Canadian travel centers.

Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, said last week that the United States and his nation would solve the countries’ ongoing trade dispute caused by the closure of the southern border to longhaul truck traffic.

The Obama administration was set last week to outline a path to national fuel-economy standards for large trucks, bringing industry and government officials to the White House to announce a plan that could aim at driving habits as well as equipment changes to reduce fuel use.

Electronic onboard recorders should be mandatory for all truckers operating in North America, the president of the said.

Schneider National said it has fitted about one-quarter of its 12,000 tractors with new onboard computers in a fleetwide rip-and-replace that, for the first time, will bring graphical navigation and electronic driver logs to every truck.