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More than 100 dealers of used commercial trucks and members of related businesses attended the first-ever convention of the Used Truck Association, held Oct. 26-28 at the Mission Inn.

Financing, once plentiful, is becoming more difficult to obtain for buyers and sellers of used trucks.

Members of The Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations heard about a way to reduce emissions from diesel exhaust – with fuel to which water has been added.

The Truckload Carriers Association’s “Just in Time to Wait” panel has devised a strategy for promoting its agreement with the National Industrial Transportation League to try to cut driver waiting time at loading docks.

The definition of insanity, says Thomas L. Finkbiner, the new chairman of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver, is when people do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, which regulates the safety of new trucking equipment, is collecting information on the potential capabilities and costs of “black box” computers on trucks to aid in reconstructing accidents, as is done in aviation.

Lingering problems with opening the U.S.-Mexico border to international trucking will remain on hold until after this week’s U.S. presidential election, according to a senior official in the Mexico transportation and communications ministry.

The California Highway Patrol this week boosted its hours for checking truck traffic at a key inland weigh station north of San Diego, helping enforce cross-border trucking rules that apply to Mexican truckers operating here under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The facility is once again checking trucks 24 hours each day.

Trying to come up with ways to unblock some of the massive congestion for trucks trying to move across the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, the California Trucking Association is officially calling on the U.S. Customs Service to stay open longer hours.

Revenue and tonnage for trucking will continue to expand at a steady rate for the first decade of the new century, according to a recently updated study of transportation and the economy.