President Bush last week submitted a transportation budget proposal that would fully fund the $32.3 billion authorized for highway and related spending in fiscal 2002.

TransCore Inc., a rapidly growing provider of high-tech transportation hardware and services, last week added another dimension to its empire, buying load-matching pioneer DAT Services from its founder, Portland, Ore.-based Jubitz Corp.

Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta has a list of candidates to fill the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s top spot, but has not yet pinpointed anyone for the job. In the interim, Julie A. Cirillo continues to lead the agency.

The National Private Truck Council named former National Moving and Storage Association chief executive Gary Frank Petty as its new president.

The Bush administration has given the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration no signals as to what it expects in an hours-of-service regulation, but the agency is continuing its efforts to develop a final rule.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fined Rush Trucking for failing to catch logbook violations by owner-operators, but the company did not falsify records, as FMCSA initially claimed in the agency’s statement to the media.