Rep. Lee Terry wants to stop the proposed hours-of-service rules dead in their tracks.

Last winter’s stark scene of high fuel prices and truck protests outside Capitol Hill have left some members of Congress hoping that history doesn’t repeat itself this coming season.

A proposal that would require fuel surcharges to benefit independent truckers will get a June 8 hearing on Capitol Hill.

Economic ruin, not highway safety, would be the result of the hours-of-service changes envisioned by the Department of Transporaton, according to the leader of American Trucking Associations.

Rep. Lee Terry wants to stop the proposed hours-of-service rules dead in their tracks.

The Distribution and LTL Carriers Association has asked that its members be excluded from proposed ergonomics standards in the workplace.

A proposal that would require fuel surcharges to benefit independent truckers will get a June 8 hearing on Capitol Hill.

The federal government's proposed ergonomics standard hit a roadblock this week when the House Appropriations Committee stripped away all ergonomics funding in next year’s budget.

The government’s hours-of-service proposal is designed to prevent 2,600 truck-related crashes and 115 fatalities a year, but critics say it does not weigh the safety effects of putting more trucks on the road to compensate for the longer rest periods.

Most sulfur in diesel fuel would be eliminated under an Environmental Protection Agency proposed rule designed to improve national air quality, but reaching these goals promises to spark major price increases at the pump.