A settlement between the Department of Transportation, Georgia transportation officials and environmental groups will cut off funding for 44 of the 61 road improvement projects in the Atlanta area, including work on interchanges of Interstates 20, 75 and 285.

Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads continued to experience service problems in the wake of their joint $10 billion acquisition of Conrail, prompting the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to order them to provide daily information on congestion and the condition of their freight systems.

A fourth person has been charged with selling commercial driver licenses in Ohio, and the state has revoked the CDLs of 15 truckers suspected to have been involved in the scheme. State investigators say Michelle L. Black signed a waiver for a trucker to bypass the driving skills test, but the applicant did not qualify for the exemption.

A settlement between the Department of Transportation, Georgia transportation officials and environmental groups will cut off funding for 44 road improvement projects in the Atlanta area. The blocked construction includes work on interchanges of Interstates 20, 75 and 285 as well as numerous state highways and local roads.

A traffic manager for a New Jersey mail-order company pleaded guilty to pocketing more than $74,000 in kickbacks and hiding the income from the Internal Revenue Service. William Surdakowski pleaded guilty June 14 to failing to report $74,889 in taxable income that he received in 1994 for awarding business to a trucking company in Virginia. The name of the firm was not released.

Nine northeastern states have banded together to get tough on trucks that pollute the air. Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont agreed to begin roadside smoke testing and ticketing trucks and buses that are in violation by July 1, 2001.

A traffic manager for a New Jersey mail-order company pleaded guilty to pocketing more than $74,000 in kickbacks and hiding the income from the Internal Revenue Service. William Surdakowski pleaded guilty June 14 to failing to report $74,889 in taxable income that he received in 1994 for awarding business to an unidentified trucking company in Virginia.

Nine northeastern states have banded together to get tough on trucks that pollute the air. Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont agreed to begin roadside smoke testing and ticketing trucks and buses that are in violation by July 1, 2001.

The president of the Oregon Senate declared there will be a single, decisive vote on a 5-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase that includes a move by trucking to replace the state’s weight-mile tax with a tax on diesel fuel. “We will have one vote, and that is all,” state Sen. Brady Adams said June 21. “Either there is support or there isn’t.”

A truck-driving California congressman suggested that if officials at the Department of Transportation can’t pull the trigger on new hours-of-service regulations, Congress should do it for them.