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Any trucking company that takes the leadership position in safety and in clean air is to be commended. But doing so through high-tech safety and Environmental Protection Agency ventures makes the outcome risky.

Get a group of truckers together anywhere in this country, and Minnesota’s “Fatigued Driving Evaluation Checklist” is bound to come up. The 75-item list gained national prominence when the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sued the Minnesota State Patrol in federal court in an attempt to stop its use.

An American Trucking Associations official told a Senate committee Tuesday that climate-change legislation would impose significant costs on American consumers.

American Trucking Associations has replaced J.J. Keller & Associates as the provider of Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards products.

P.A.M. Transportation Services Monday named Daniel Cushman its new president, replacing long-time president Robert Weaver.

The Department of Transportation has approved a $386 million loan to finance construction on the Triangle Expressway in North Carolina.

Navman Wireless has added truck-specific routing to the M-Nav 750, the latest incarnation of the Glenview, Ill., company’s handheld GPS unit for fleet users.

YRC Worldwide said it has reached a new cost-cutting agreement with the Teamsters union and hired a financial adviser to work with key lenders as part of a broad effort to boost the carrier’s cash position.

Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. has accused the Environmental Protection Agency of attempting to remove documents from official records and allowing the Engine Manufacturers Association to write the draft of its selective catalytic reduction guidance document for 2010 “in secret collaboration with certain engine makers.”

The European Union last week imposed tariffs on biodiesel imported from the United States to counter low prices it said were caused by subsidies, but a spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative denied subsidies were the main reason for the growth of U.S. sales in Europe and that the United States would review the tariffs “closely.”