The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is telling 12,500 businesses in 18 industries on its “Most Wanted” list to shape up. That is all the agency can do since a federal court struck down its “voluntary” compliance program for addressing worker injury and illness problems.

Photo from Ontario Ministry of the EnvironmentOntario 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.

A temporary 3-cent fuel tax increase enacted in North Dakota to provide funding to repair flooded roads was made permanent to handle a deluge of a different kind.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is telling 12,500 businesses in 18 industries on its “Most Wanted” list to shape up.

The Arizona Motor Transport Association is advising carriers not to sign a form waiving the statute of limitations for auditing under the state’s bygone weight-distance tax.

Truckers in Oregon are pushing for a law that would give companies notice when a driver tests positive for drugs or alcohol.

The federal fee for hazardous materials transport registration would take a big jump for a relatively small number of larger carriers and shippers under a new proposal advanced by a cash-hungry Research and Special Programs Administration.

The wheels of justice continue to grind slowly in the case of the consent decrees six diesel engine makers signed with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency in October.

A botched environmental review of the plan to replace the decaying Woodrow Wilson Bridge could force trucks off the crucial Interstate 95 span.

Trucks cabs are business offices, and that’s the way manufacturers should configure them, said the chief executive of one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers.