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The Canadian Trucking Alliance is asking that its federal government abandon a plan to adopt a 2% biodiesel mandate for all diesel fuel sold in the country.

Agents of the California Air Resources Board have fanned out to ticket truck operators who fail to comply with the state’s complicated schedule for reducing emissions from the small diesel engines that power transport refrigeration.

U.S. consumer confidence grew this month, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

It took years to beat back the state of Virginia’s ill-advised plan to toll Interstate 81, but eventually it was abandoned. Trucking, and the state’s motorists, breathed a sigh of relief after that tolling scheme was tossed out.

LINTHICUM, Md. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration expects to issue new rules for medical examiners to address sleep apnea and other health conditions later this year, agency officials said.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a Senate subcommittee the Obama administration soon will unveil its plan to relaunch a cross-border trucking program along the U.S.-Mexico border.

CHICAGO — The National Tank Truck Carriers for the first time has formally endorsed the use of trucks heavier than the current 80,000-pound weight limit.

Dutch-based package carrier TNT and Con-way Freight announced the expansion of their partnership to move freight between the United States and Europe, with new service at Los Angeles International Airport and Miami International Airport.

American Trucking Associations, along with several key industry groups and manufacturers, asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to change its final rule on electronic onboard recorders, saying the technical specifications laid out by the regulation were not achievable.