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NewsFebruary 10, 2011

New Program Aims to Jump-Start Truckstop Electrification

A truckstop electrification project is using a combination of federal grants and private funding to build truck electrification hookups at 50 locations on five major Interstate corridors, and will offer incentives for fleets to have 5,000 trucks outfitted with the equipment needed to plug in

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NewsFebruary 2, 2011

UPS 4th Quarter Earnings Surge; All-Time High Predicted for 2011

UPS announced adjusted better-than-expected earnings this week for the fourth quarter of 2010

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NewsJanuary 4, 2011

Diesel Begins the Year on an Upswing

The national average price of a gallon of diesel was up again this week, rising 3.7 cents from last week

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NewsJanuary 4, 2011

NHTSA Clears Path for Speed-Limiter Proposal

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving ahead on a rulemaking on speed limiters for heavy trucks, which had its start four years ago with petitions by two trucking interest groups

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

Transportation and Construction Coalition Warns of Highway Funding Cuts

Changes to government spending rules recently proposed by The House Republican Conference has a coalition of highway users and road-building groups up in arms over the possibility that highway funding could be treated as any other spending proposal

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NewsDecember 22, 2010

Trucking Groups Say Port Registries Violate Federal Law

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the New Jersey Motor Truck Association and the Port Drivers Federation 18 have filed a petition asking the Department of Transportation (DOT) for a determination that mandatory drayage truck registries conducted by various ports and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are pre-empted by federal law

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NewsDecember 13, 2010

FMCSA Opens CSA Data to Public Following Court's Denial of Suit

The next stage of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration's CSA 2010 safety program went live over the weekend, after a federal appeals court denied a suit by several groups of small trucking companies to prevent release of CSA safety data

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NewsDecember 8, 2010

Court Ruling Pending in Suit to Stop Opening of CSA 2010 Data

The suit by several groups of small trucking companies against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new safety program, CSA 2010, has gone through the argument phase and is approaching a decision by the court

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NewsNovember 30, 2010

Carrier Groups Sue to Halt CSA 2010 Safety Data Publication

Several groups of small trucking companies have sued to prevent publication of carriers' safety performance data under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 program

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ArticlesNovember 29, 2010

Why Diesel Fuel Prices Need Increased Taxes

Please wait a second before being upset at this headline

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