Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ongress ordered federal regulators to issue a rule making owners of intermodal chassis responsible for their safety and for maintaining the equipment.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. wo provisions that would allow tolling of certain stretches of interstate highways were included in the multiyear highway funding bill passed by Congress last week.

Trucking industry officials told Transport Topics they hoped recently announced changes at the Department of Homeland Security would improve coordination on freight and trucking security issues.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. egotiators from the House and Senate began work last week to draft a comprehensive energy bill that could include incentives for trucking fleets to retrofit older diesel engines and extend daylight-saving time by two months.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. bill providing incentives to fleets that purchase cleaner diesel engines in 2007 has been introduced in the House by Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.).

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>A panel of industry executives and state and local government officials told a Senate subcommittee they supported a plan to offer loans and grants to trucking fleets to retrofit existing diesel engines, but cautioned the full benefits of cleaner diesel technology could not be realized without the timely use of ultra-low-sulfur diesel.

The U.S. Senate last week approved an energy bill that called for great use of biofuels, incentives for diesel engine retrofits and a reduction in oil consumption.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. merican Trucking Associations has asked the federal government to label some hazardous materials as “security sensitive” for regulatory purposes in order to distinguish between hazmats that are a significant security risk in transport and those that are not.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Senate last week voted to offer $1 billion in federal grants and loans for retrofits of older diesel engines as part of its work on the comprehensive energy bill.

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 proposed revising its rules that govern how cargo is secured on flatbed trailers. The regulations, which went into effect in January 2004, cover how carriers must tie down or secure materials such as lumber, metal and automobiles.