The Alabama Trucking Association and American Trucking Associations have sued Alabama officials, trying to stop the state from ticketing truckers that used third parties to register their trucks in Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON — An official of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said that even though much of the new attention to port security has focused on containers coming off ships, keeping a close eye on truckers hauling those containers is also important.

A Pennsylvania congressman and representatives of the trucking industry called on Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker to block proposed sharp toll increases on seven of the toll bridges linking the state to New Jersey.

BOSTON - Twenty years after a handful of state truck enforcement agencies founded the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, a roadside inspection in Utah looks pretty much like an inspection in Maine.

The Colorado Motor Carriers Association and the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association helped organize trucking companies to haul donated hay from Wisconsin to drought-stricken farmers and ranchers in southwest Colorado.

Rep. Thomas E. Petri (R-Wis.), a leading member of Congress on transportation issues, asked for a Department of Transportation investigation of its system for targeting trucking-company safety inspections.

WASHINGTON — A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official said the agency may devote more resources to checking drivers and fewer toward inspecting trucks if an ongoing study concludes drivers are the main cause of truck crashes.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance criticized as unsafe a recent Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration internal policy decision under which agency field staff would ignore violations or accidents by truckers on intrastate trips in determining safety ratings.

Negotiators for West Coast longshoremen and port operators resumed their talks Aug. 13 after a two-week break, with each side claiming the other was not bargaining in earnest.

Two pieces of legislation calling for port operator fines for keeping trucks waiting and making intermodal chassis inspections tougher moved closer to passage in the California Legislature.