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The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency brushed aside claims that the six primary U.S. diesel engine makers did not knowingly violate federal air quality rules, and urged a judge to ratify the agreement, which will cost the manufacturers more than $1 billion in fines and added costs.

A Department of Defense plan to pay freight bills through a third-party electronic payment system is caught in a whirlpool of praise and criticism.

Trucker Buddy Inc., the organization that was founded in 1993 to set up pen-pal relationships between professional truck drivers and children, has fired its president and management firm.

A complete structural makeover was approved for the National Private Truck Council at its annual convention, which attracted about 1,200 private fleet operators and suppliers.

Threatened work stoppages over the weekend of May 1 failed to materialize at the Elba, Ala., plant of Dorsey Trailers, and work proceeded this week under a negotiated agreement that was ratified on May 3.

TT File PhotoA bill introduced by Sens. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) would limit the authority of states to toll Interstate highways to pay for building or repairing bridges and tunnels on them, a power granted in the 1998 highway spending bill.

A rule requiring trailers made before 1993 to be retrofitted with reflective tape or paint is being challenged by the National Tank Truck Carriers.

Government regulators are now circulating among lawmakers a draft proposal to clean up the nation’s Commercial Driver License program.

Skynet Holdings, a Los Angeles-based company with courier operations in England, the United States and Australia, has tentatively agreed to acquire Pony Express Delivery Services of Altanta.

The national average price for diesel fuel remained the same last week, leading analysts to cautiously forecast an end to the volatile swings of the previous months.