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Amid shipper protests, the Surface Transportation Board voted to suspend truck freight rate increases proposed by four motor carrier rate bureaus while the board investigates the hikes.

The Department of Transportation says it will not release the scientific basis of new hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers before a proposal is unveiled.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly planning to cut truck tailpipe emissions up to 90% more than the already strict new levels that diesel engine makers have agreed to meet by 2002.

About 6:30 every morning, Urbano Petrizza arrives at the RPS Inc. terminal here dressed in an RPS uniform and picks up his RPS van. But he's not an employee: He's an independent contractor.

Reflecting a changing business and legal environment, the ATA Litigation Center is taking a new direction and focus, the American Trucking Associations president told 150 lawyers attending a conference on highway accident litigation in Beaver Creek, Colo., last week.

On Sept. 29, a select group of Florida truckers set out to become the extra eyes and ears watching and guarding the highways.

The public overwhelmingly favors an overhaul of federal motor vehicle safety standards, stepped-up attention to intersection safety and more frequent license testing for the nation’s youngest and oldest drivers, according to a Louis Harris poll released Sept. 27.

Overnite Transportation Co. Chairman Leo Suggs challenged the Teamsters union to a winner-take-all national vote by company workers on whether they want to join the union.

Faced with the possibility of new taxes to cover dredging operations, ports are starting to exercise their political muscle.

Despite stiff opposition from rail labor organizations and farm-state senators, the Senate Commerce Committee voted Sept. 30 to confirm Linda J. Morgan to a second five-year term as chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.