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Put the cellular phone down when you’re driving. That’s the message some legislators in 10 states hope to deliver to all drivers, four-wheelers and big rigs alike.

Oregon last week dropped out of Norpass, a transponder-based weigh station bypass system it helped nurture, over terms of an agreement reached with rival service PrePass.

Bring together an American trucking industry in desperate need of qualified drivers and a U.S. territory searching for ways to create jobs for its residents, and it just may be a match made in heaven.

This afternoon's headlines: Fuel prices keep breaking records while analysts predict a drop in oil prices; and M.S. Carriers Inc. posts strong fourth-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street estimates.

In the news this morning: Canadian trucking firms to take port drivers to court; Penn. DOT launches safety blitz; and Nissan plans top-level overhaul at truck division.

American Trucking Associations will immediately cut its dues to motor carriers by 10%, President Walter B. McCormick Jr. told the group's Winter Leadership Meeting at its opening session on Feb 6.

Truckload Carriers Association President Lana R. Batts said she will resign her post at the 900-member group effective at the end of March.

The Teamsters union showed its cards last week, leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind that it intends to organize the nation’s port owner-operators.

After refusing to budge on the issue for months, the federal government has agreed to extend the deadline for comments on its controversial ergonomics standard proposal.

The Department of Transportation’s much-anticipated hours-of-service reforms should be made public within a few weeks, according to a top agency official.