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News•September 19, 2012

FMCSA Shuts Down Kansas Trucking Company for Extreme Hours of Service Violations

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Kansas-based commercial truck company HP Distribution LLP and an affiliated company, HP Distribution LLC, to immediately cease all transportation services based on serious hours-of-service and other safety violations that posed an imminent hazard to public safety

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News•September 17, 2012

Diesel prices rise only slightly

Once again this week, the price of diesel per gallon has gone up only marginally over last week. Prices rose only 0.3 cents per gallon on average to $4.14, which is an increase of approximately 30 cents over prices last year

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News•September 17, 2012

House Passes Continuing Resolution without MAP-21 Spending Levels

The House passed a six-month continuing resolution Thursday evening to fund the government until early 2013 -- without incorporating the transportation funding levels enacted in the new transportation bill, MAP-21

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News•September 13, 2012

House Committee Hears CSA Complaints

A congressional hearing yesterday on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's CSA safety enforcement program gave critics a chance to vent, but the committee appears content for the time being to let the agency and its constituents work things out

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News•September 12, 2012

Brenntag North America Expands DEF Infrastructure

Brenntag, a distributor of diesel exhaust fluid, expanded its North American DEF infrastructure by installing bulk diesel exhaust fluid tanks at six additional facilitie

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News•September 12, 2012

CSA Issues to be Aired on Hill Today

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's flagship CSA safety enforcement program will face congressional scrutiny today as a House subcommittee airs questions about the program's effectiveness

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News•September 12, 2012

Ryder $1 Million Settlement to CARB to Help Pay for Education, Natural Gas Service

The California Air Resources Board announced that Ryder System paid $1 million for failure to conduct testing and maintain complete records of required annual opacity tests on heavy-duty vehicles in its California fleet in 2008 and 2009

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Articles•September 12, 2012

Natural Gas: What Fleets Need to Know - Annual Sales of Natural Gas Trucks to Surpass 180,000 by 2019

A new report from Pike Research forecasts steady growth in the market for natural gas trucks and buses. Annual worldwide sales of these vehicles will more than double over the next seven years, the firm says, growing from less than 70,000 in 2012 to more than 180,000 in 2019

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News•September 11, 2012

NTSB's Strategic Plan Available For Comment

A draft of the National Transportation Safety Boards' strategic plan for 2013 through 2016 is available to the public for comment

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News•September 11, 2012

Alliance for Driver Safety & Security Expands Agenda Beyond EOBRs

The Alliance for Driver Safety & Security, a Washington, D.C. coalition of transportation companies that promoted recent federal legislation to require electronic on-board recording devices (EOBRs) in all commercial trucks, has named Callie Hoyt its manager of governmental affairs and is expanding its focus to other trucking safety issues

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