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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) released results of a bipartisan poll that showed majorities of the state’s residents are concerned about transportation and back more funding of infrastructure projects.

A pilot program in which trucks made off-hour runs into New York City decreased the average delivery time from the depot to the first receiver by 75%, according to an analysis of the program.

The decisions by three trucking fleets to announce public share offerings in recent weeks represent a sharp change in direction for an industry that went more than five years without a stock sale.

The U.S. Department of Transportation said it is adding new tests for transportation workers to detect the designer drug “ecstasy,” while also lowering the positive threshold amounts of amphetamines and cocaine and adding a new marker to identify heroin use.

Changes that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made to its CSA safety-monitoring program are causing the ratings of fleets across the country to change, and not always for the better, carrier executives told Transport Topics.

Truckers, chemical manufacturers, and other trade groups are questioning a new federal requirement that motor carriers and exporters stipulate on electronic manifests the amount of residual chemicals left inside cargo tank containers when returning from deliveries in Canada and Mexico.

In the face of record-setting petroleum stockpiles, the U.S. retail diesel price average dipped 1.2 cents to $2.979 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

An index of leading economic indicators increased 0.1% in July, the second increase in four months, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has named 20 people to a blue-ribbon commission assigned to come up with recommendations for reshaping how Maryland funds its transportation system.

Members of a coalition of truckers, chemical manufacturers, and other trade groups are in discussions with U.S. customs officials over a yet-to-be-enforced, controversial requirement that motor carriers and exporters stipulate on electronic manifests the amount of residual chemicals left inside cargo and portable tank containers when returning from deliveries in Canada and Mexico.