Trucking’s quick response brought critical supplies to the disaster sites within hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the word now out of New York is to hold off on bringing goods unless relief workers specifically request them.

Among the starkest examples of the horror associated with Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Manhattan is that emergency response officials have asked refrigerated carriers to supply trailers as temporary morgues.

Top U.S. officials have confirmed that Mexican truckers who operate in the United States will have to pay all the federal and state taxes and registration fees that U.S. carriers must pay.

No new hours-of-service proposals will be issued for at least a year while the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awaits the results of an independent cost-benefit analysis, according to an FMCSA spokesman.

Former trucking company executive Joseph M. Clapp, President Bush’s nominee to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, is working as a consultant to Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta pending the Senate’s approval of his appointment.

Democratic congressmen opposed to allowing Mexican trucks to operate throughout the United States have asked the General Accounting Office to study the U.S. and Mexican governments’ ability to ensure the safe condition of the trucks.

New rules proposed July 27 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would increase the number of offenses termed serious enough to revoke a commercial drivers license.

Members of the House and Senate called upon leaders on all sides of the trade and transportation movement to help them hash out the details of a plan to allow Mexican trucks to operate in the United States.

The chairman of the Yellow Corp. told the Secretary of Labor that voluntary initiatives to reduce ergonomics injuries are preferable to a standard not based on sound science.

The Department of Transportation failed to meet the June 23 deadline for submitting a study to Congress on claims that long-haul truckers can’t find sufficient parking spaces to comply with federal safety regulations.