Four years ago, the Department of Transportation issued a notice of proposed rulemaking intended to modernize federal regulations governing how long truck and bus drivers can spend behind the wheel.

The next president of the United States may decide whether sweeping workplace safety provisions, which would affect nearly 2 million employers and 27 million workers, will be the law of the land.

The Engine Manufacturer’s Association, Chicago, Ill., voted recently to remove the existing seven-member staff, including executive director Glenn Keller.

Congress was working late this week on an attempt to pass a $240 billion tax cut bill, part of which would repeal the 4.3-cent-per-gallon excise tax on diesel fuel used by trains and waterway barge companies.

President Clinton has warned Congress that he intends to veto its new Labor Department appropriations bill because it contains a prohibition on developing new ergonomics rules for the nation’s industries.

A long-term government study on the effects of diesel exhaust raises more questions about the fuel than answers, say spokesmen for the trucking industry and diesel technology.

President Clinton has warned Congress that he intends to veto its new Labor Department appropriations bill because it contains a prohibition on developing new ergonomics rules for the nation’s industries.

The $58 billion Transportation Appropriations bill for 2001 was signed by President Bill Clinton Monday. The bill provides money for additional roadside inspections and a large truck crash study, but no funding for hours-of-service reforms.

A long-term government study on the effects of diesel exhaust raises more questions about the fuel than answers, say spokesmen for the trucking industry and diesel technology.

Trucking’s fight to simplify the medical examination form and rid the health history section of such terms as “fits, syphilis and gonorrhea and nervous stomach” has scored a victory.