Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and inundated the freight network around New Orleans, the region’s transport system started its slow recovery, although several key links remained severed.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has relaxed driver hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers bringing supplies to the hard-hit Gulf Coast region still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>With the staff work needed to revise its driver hours-of-service rules now mostly behind it, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is preparing to issue several new rules stemming from the recently enacted highway-spending reauthorization, agency officials said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith less than five weeks until the FMCSA's new hours-of-service regulations go into effect, trucking industry and enforcement officials said they are concerned about not having enough time to adapt to the changes, even with an announced three-month transitional period of soft enforcement.

The $286.4 billion highway act signed by President Bush earlier this month included more than $2 billion for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to fund a variety of truck safety programs.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ASHINGTON — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration chief Annette Sandberg unveiled a new, slightly revised driver hours-of-service rule Friday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. Among the money set aside for the construction of bridges and highways as part of the just-enacted, six-year federal highway funding act was $25 million for a pilot project to increase the number of truck parking facilities along the nation’s highways.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Trucking officials said they believe a controversial plan to impose tolls on Interstate 81 in Virginia and force trucks onto separate lanes probably is dead, as the state received much less money under the new federal highway spending legislation than it had anticipated.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.With a congressional deadline to rewrite the existing driver hours-of-service rules looming just six weeks away, industry sources said they believe the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new regulations would be very similar to the current rules.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has sent a new version of its truck-driver hours-of-service regulation to the White House budget office for review, and trucking representatives said the reworked rule could be published soon.