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Fallout from the financial collapse of Preston Trucking Co. continues rippling across the state and region, with truckers demanding their wages after their paychecks bounced.

This Afternoon's Headlines: Shippers urged to help in speeding US-Mexico truck crossings; Allied Waste selling some operations to the public; and Trucker eyes S.C. freight hub, training site.

Truckers using fuel or credit cards will be able to whiz through check-out lines at truck stops, according to marketers of a satellite point-of-sale technology.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to build an intelligent transportation system by 2001. DOT considers 17 standards to be essential to making it work.

In the news this morning: N.C. jury awards $3.67 million in fatal wreck; Waste Management disavows executive, dismisses financial chief, top counsel; and a European partner for UPS?

Even as less-than-truckload carriers are reporting falling profits due to a slackening in demand for their services, more of them are also asking their customers for freight rate increases.

The computerized database by which the federal government ultimately gauges a trucking operation’s qualities in the realm of safety is burdened by incomplete and sometimes misleading information on accidents, drivers and maintenance operations, according to a number of industry consultants.

Heavy rains in central Colorado caused mudslides that have closed portions of Interstate 70, Colorado 133, and U.S. 6 following flash flooding throughout the area on Tuesday.

The federal government’s vision waiver program continues on, despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that the waivers do not mean a trucker is "qualified" to drive a commercial vehicle.

This afternoon's headlines: CSX opens TransFlo facility in Canada; Sweeping up the roads; and Reality Check: U.S. trucking execs report good business.