A proposal to update driver hours of service remains in regulatory limbo. While the Department of Transportation said the new proposal would be out by the end of April, the White House has yet to approve the plan.

The Department of Transportation’s effort to change its longstanding drug and alcohol testing policy is not going down smoothly with drivers or their bosses.

With the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration preparing to issue its long-awaited update of the hours-of-service regulations, a senior agency official confirmed some details of what changes the proposal is likely to contain.

The chief executive officer of CSX Transportation and several of his top assistants were fired last week after a federal agency found problems with track safety at the largest railroad in the eastern United States.

The Department of Transportation’s effort to change its longstanding drug and alcohol testing policy is not going down smoothly with drivers or their bosses.

With the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration preparing to issue its long-awaited update of the hours-of-service regulations, a senior agency official confirmed some details of what changes the proposal is likely to contain.

The number of crashes involving trucks took another dive during 1999 as the industry improved its safety record for the second year in the row, according to preliminary statistics from the Department of Transportation.

Cattle ranchers, steel makers and trucking company executives fanned out across Capitol Hill last week in an effort to spark congressional interest in heavier trucks.

Board members of the Transportation Loss Prevention & Security Council of American Trucking Associations are scheduled to vote April 11 on a restructuring plan to merge it with another affiliated group.

Authorization for the federal highway program will not run out until 2003, yet the Department of Transportation is developing the first surface transportation proposal of the 21st century, with emphasis on intermodalism.