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The leadership of the Truckload Carriers Association is expected to overwhelmingly sign off on a plan June 20 that calls for the group and its members to pay American Trucking Associations a monthly fee instead of requiring its members to join the federation.

The Department of Transportation says it has no data to support its call for using electronic data recorders to monitor compliance with federal hours-of-service regulations.

The owners, operators and lessors of intermodal equipment need to agree on who should be responsible for its upkeep or the government will do it for them, a top Department of Transportation official warned.

Proposed changes to the hours-of-service regulations would cause increased pollution, road rage and divorces but fail to accomplish the stated goal of improving highway safety, according to testimony at a June 15 hearing.

Trucking should not expect a slackening of commercial vehicle safety inspections and compliance reviews anytime soon, warned a federal official who oversees the industry.

The Senate threw a major roadblock in the Department of Transportation's drive to institute new hours-of-service rules for truckers, voting 99-0 on Thursday to bar DOT from spending any money on the proposal.

The Department of Transportation is extending the deadline for comments on its proposed hours of service rulemaking until Oct. 30.

Bowing to political pressure from numerous trucking and shippers groups, the Department of Transportation is "prepared" to extend the deadline for public comments on proposed changes to the hours-of-service regulations until late October.

A group of Houston drayage carriers are withdrawing their lawsuit against a Teamsters local that was planning to strike the trucking companies.

The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department is celebrating its 10th anniversary in July with its third national convention.