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A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration advisory committee last week recommended that the agency set up a database to identify and track trucking company officials, supervisors and other key “persons of influence” who exhibit “patterns of safety violations.”

Arkansas truckers, whose leadership convinced state legislators to approve a 5-cent-a-gallon diesel tax increase for highway repairs, are seeking a new funding source after a plan to put the tax proposal before the voters ran into stiff opposition.

With Congress slated to spend its summer on budget negotiations and the debt ceiling, legislative leaders said reauthorization of transportation funding has been crowded off the agenda until September, if not later.

The average price of a gallon of retail diesel dipped for the sixth time in the past seven weeks, even before 28 nations agreed June 23 to release 60 million barrels of crude oil from their strategic reserves in a bid to drive fuel prices lower around the world.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official.

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber (D) has signed a measure that restricts truck idling while also preventing local governments from implementing their own anti-idling regulations.

American Trucking Associations and nearly two dozen other business groups in recent weeks have re-affirmed their support of Alan Bersin as commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

Maine’s legislature has approved a two-year, $637 million transportation funding bill that would end annual fuel tax increases tied to inflation beginning next year.

The ability of state and local governments to raise cash by  leasing or selling transportation assets to private investors would be slowed down, if not killed altogether, under a bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).