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WASHINGTON — While truck-to-truck communication, driver training and safety have advanced the effort to hasten platooning to market, another critical aspect is looming and just may cause momentum to pull back some: the impact on infrastructure.

WASHINGTON��— The South Coast Air Quality Management District expects to start a one-year test soon of electrified trucking near two of the nation’s largest ports, the leader of the agency’s division overseeing the program said Jan. 8.

SAN DIEGO — Stiffening competition for truck drivers and misperceptions about their work-lifestyle balance are among the biggest challenges to recruitment, according industry experts.

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized several fleets for “joining arm in arm” to cut carbon pollution, a challenge that agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said has helped bring innovation to the trucking market.

SAN DIEGO — The Share the Road highway safety program that American Trucking Associations created to convey safety and responsibility messages directed at those who drive around large trucks was feted by federation executives for its life-saving messages.

SAN DIEGO — Kendra Hems, president of the New York State Motor Truck Association, received the Trucking Association Executives Council Leadership Award from American Trucking Associations.

SAN DIEGO — Several state trucking association executives were commended by American Trucking Associations for notable service to the industry.