American Trucking Associations and the Environmental Protection Agency will meet on Nov. 7 before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue whether EPA can set revised smog and soot standards without a detailed congressional mandate.

The Department of Transportation moved to salvage its much-maligned hours-of-service rules revision by proposing three more hearings on the proposal, but the immediate response from Capitol Hill indicated that the department’s tactic may be for naught.

American Trucking Associations and the Environmental Protection Agency will meet on Nov. 7 before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue whether EPA can set revised smog and soot standards without a detailed congressional mandate.

A pilot program to cut construction project red tape will be tried out on a $1 billion intermodal rail and truck distribution facility in New Jersey and a $1 billion highway project in Texas, said American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials.

Citizens Against Government Waste, America’s largest taxpayer watchdog group, is recommending the federal government repeal the estate tax, stop funding for mass transit programs and phase out its operating subsidy for Amtrak.

Hollywood’s truck drivers often spend more time waiting than driving, and that’s one reason why the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers wants them exempted from the proposed hours-of-service rules.

A $1 billion intermodal facility in New Jersey and a $1 billion road project in Dallas are part of a federal pilot program to cut red tape on construction projects.

American Trucking Associations has rebuked the Department of Transportation for portraying trucking interests as being engaged in "a raw use of political power … to stop progress" in the development of hours-of-service rules.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold three roundtable discussions in the Washington, D.C., area on the proposed hours-of-service rules, but safety and other groups greeted the news with some skepticism.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to open informal discussions on its proposed reforms in the truck driver hours of service in hope of resolving issues that have generated a great deal of opposition. The agency, however, is not considering a negotiated rulemaking to iron out differences.