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The Federal Highway Administration has extended until Aug. 30 the deadline for comments on its proposed rulemaking regarding the “roadworthiness” of intermodal equipment.

Kansas truckers scored a small victory when the state’s legislature passed a transportation plan that relies on fuel taxes, bond sales and the diversion of funds from other sources to pay for $12 billion in infrastructure improvements.

The government's top motor carrier safety regulator thinks setting a dedicated trucking agency apart from the highway office is not a good idea.

When J. Harwood Cochrane founded truckload carrier Highway Express in 1991, he was starting his "second career" with high hopes.

The Federal Highway Administration is reviewing self-insurance standards for trucking companies.

Legislation replacing three federal truck taxes with a weight-distance tax was proposed May 13 by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Chafee (R-RI).

Teamsters union negotiators have threatened to call a strike if bargaining with major vehicle transport companies doesn't produce an acceptable labor contract by May 31.

Organizers of a July 5 trucker strike said they have been getting between 20 and 40 inquiries a day from drivers wanting to know more about the planned job action.

The National Transportation Safety Board looked at trucking regulators' response to its most urgent safety recommendations last week and found it seriously wanting.

On April 1, the U.S. Customs Service hooked up its beleaguered Automated Commercial System to a sort of Internet-based life support.