Rail and barge companies will continue to pay a 4.3-cent-per-gallon tax on diesel fuel after the House Rules Committee dropped a measure to repeal it from the Railroad Retirement and Survivors Act of 2000.

Six diesel engine manufacturers have asked the federal government to allow them to install a computer program in model 2003 engines that would shut off pollution control equipment to prevent engine damage under certain driving conditions.

The House failed to override President Clinton’s veto of the estate tax bill that would have provided relief to family-owned trucking companies beginning next year.

Trucking’s largest lobbying group asked President Clinton to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve on to the market “to protect a strong U.S. economy and the men and women who work hard every day to deliver it.”

Trucking’s largest lobbying group asked President Clinton to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve on to the market “to protect a strong U.S. economy and the men and women who work hard every day to deliver it.”

The House failed to override President Clinton’s veto of the estate tax bill that would have provided relief to family-owned trucking companies beginning next year.

The Truckload Carriers Association presented a check for $250,000 to American Trucking Associations to help with ATA’s campaign against the Department of Transportation’s proposed hours-of-service regulations.

The government is eyeballing the dimensions of the hardware that protrudes from tractors and trailers — mirrors, lights and aerodynamic devices — in the context of vehicle length, width and height regulations.

Congress will vote Sept. 7 whether to override President Clinton’s veto of the bill that would have provided estate tax relief to family-owned businesses, including trucking companies, beginning next year.

An Indiana trucking company was ordered to halt its operations Aug. 29 for allegedly allowing its drivers to falsify their logbooks.