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Emerging transponder technology has allowed truckers to bypass highway weigh stations, but it has also generated a dispute over the ownership of the signals these devices produce.

Evidence mounted that the Environmental Protection Agency knew long before it lowered the boom on diesel engine makers that their engines had pollution problems and that EPA’s own certification test was so poorly designed it failed to detect illegal emissions levels.

The Environmental Protection Agency apparently believes it isn’t accountable, at least not to TT, our many readers, the trucking industry at large or the American public.

The Federal Highway Administration last week announced it is taking the first step toward a negotiated rulemaking to update hours of service regulations for truck drivers.

Record low fuel costs may sound like a boon for trucking, but some carrier executives say diesel prices have been met by demands from shippers for reduced freight charges..

Is another big-time merger among less-than-truckload carriers in the offing.

The Department of Transportation is responding to criticism from safety groups that the Federal Highway Administration is not adequately handling truck safety.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the family of a truck driver who was killed while trying to stop a robbery at a rest stop is not entitled to worker’s compensation benefits.

Captive rail shippers pleaded with the Surface Transportation Board last week to “restore and enhance” competition in the Houston and Gulf Coast areas by granting other railroads access to Union Pacific lines and allowing some customers to build links to other carriers.

Congress is expected to try again next year to update the nation’s postal laws, but any changes will likely be far from the privatization efforts that have taken hold in Europe.