Ocean shipping — the last of the great governmentally controlled modes of transportation — took a mighty hit from the deregulation ax.

If you said the “f-word” when you were younger, there’s a good chance your mother washed your mouth out with soap, but some truckers up north found out that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s penalties can be much stiffer.

The National Transportation Safety Board called on truckers to look to the skies for a way to improve safety and repeated demands that trucks be required to install black boxes similar to those used on airplanes.

The National Transportation Safety Board called on truckers to look to the skies for a way to improve safety and repeated demands that trucks be required to install black boxes similar to those used on airplanes.

Ocean shipping – the last of the great governmentally controlled modes of transportation –took a mighty hit from the deregulation ax.

The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency brushed aside claims that the six primary U.S. diesel engine makers did not knowingly violate federal air quality rules, and urged a judge to ratify the agreement, which will cost the manufacturers more than $1 billion in fines and added costs.

TT File PhotoA bill introduced by Sens. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) would limit the authority of states to toll Interstate highways to pay for building or repairing bridges and tunnels on them, a power granted in the 1998 highway spending bill.

Kansas truckers scored a victory when the legislature passed a transportation that relies on fuel taxes and bond sales to pay for $12 billion in infrastructure improvements.

Trucking companies with trailers to donate and a desire to help are being sought by Feed The Children to assist in the aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas earlier this week.

Ontario will be the first province in Canada to get tough on excessive smoke from truck exhaust stacks in a wide-ranging enforcement effort to combat a growing smog problem.