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

The Environmental Protection Agency and American Trucking Associations will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court on how air pollution standards are set.

It's official: Maritime Administrator Clyde J. Hart Jr. is taking over as chief of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for three months, starting today.

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.

Estimates by the Department of Transportation show the proposed hours-of-service rules would prevent 2,600 accidents, 2,996 injuries and 115 fatalities annually, but fewer accidents do not necessarily translate into lower insurance costs for trucking.

The year is 2001. It is summer and the commute to work has doubled. Cellular telephones are drawn from hips and everyone is talking about why, at this time of day, roads swarm with construction activity.

Hours-of-service rules by the Department of Transportation, controversial in most quarters, could slam dunk doughnut sales, a bakery trade group claims.

A House appropriations subcommittee granted the Department of Transportation another $605 million for 2001, boosting DOT’s overall spending plan to $55.2 billion, or about $5.2 billion over 2000.

Hours-of-service rules by the Department of Transportation, controversial in most quarters, could slam dunk doughnut sales, a bakery trade group claims.

Estimates by the Department of Transportation show the proposed hours-of-service rules would prevent 2,600 accidents, 2,996 injuries and 115 fatalities annually, but fewer accidents do not necessarily translate into lower insurance costs for trucking.