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News•February 13, 2012

Obama's 2013 Budget Calls for Major Transportation Funding

The White House budget for the fiscal 2013 includes a $476 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill to invest in highway, bridge and mass transit projects through 2018

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News•February 13, 2012

FMCSA Plans a Third Proposal to Answer EOBR Questions

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration decided to take a step back from its pending electronic onboard recorder rules and begin a supplemental process to resolve legal and technical problems

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Articles•by Oliver Patton•February 13, 2012

EPA's SmartWay Looks for a Smarter Way

In this era of complaining about heavy-handed government, here's one federal program that gets cheers all around

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News•February 10, 2012

New York DMV to Waive Road Tests for Veterans Applying for CDLs

As part of his "Experience Counts" campaign to help returning veterans get jobs in New York State, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo implemented two initiatives, one of which waives commercial driver's license road tests for veterans with qualifying driving experience

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News•February 10, 2012

Clean Energy Opens LNG Fueling Station in Seville, Ohio

A new liquefied natural gas fueling station built, owned and operated by Clean Energy Fuels Corp., has opened in Seville, Ohio. The station will support the expanding fleet of LNG trucks deployed by Dillon Transport serving Owens Corning and is also available for public access

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News•February 9, 2012

MIT Study Finds Electric Trucks Can Save Businesses Money

Using electric trucks can considerably reduce costs for fleets, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT News reported that the study, conducted at MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics, found that electric vehicles can cost 9% to 12% less to operate than diesel-powered trucks when used to make deliveries on a daily basis in large cities

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News•February 8, 2012

Senate Committee Clears Highway Funding Measure

The Senate Finance Committee Tuesday evening passed a bill to provide funding for a two-year highway program. The measure is a $9.6 billion bundle of transfers and revenue offsets that no one on the committee particularly liked as a solution to the highway funding shortfall but a majority accepted because failure to act would doom the highway bill

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News•February 8, 2012

Florida's Capital Begins Construction for Natural Gas Fueling Station Project

Construction kicked off in Florida's capital city on the first of a network of natural gas fueling stations

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News•February 7, 2012

Hino Trucks Honored at National Biodiesel Conference

Hino Trucks was recognized by the National Biodiesel Board with the 2012 "Eye on Biodiesel Impact Award" during a ceremony at the National Biodiesel Conference in Orlando, Fla

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News•February 7, 2012

U.S. DEF pump price drops

The average pump price for diesel exhaust fluid in the U.S. fell by a penny to $2.75 a gallon from December to January, discoverdef.com reported

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