A preliminary study of truck traffic and security aimed at reducing potential terrorist threats and improving traffic flow in the nation’s capital recommended restricting trucks to specific corridors and requiring most loading and unloading at night.

The Delaware River Port Authority — a body that oversees four east-west bridges in the Philadelphia metropolitan area — decided to keep in place a system of E-ZPass discounts for commercial vehicles even as it removed them for passenger cars.

New Jersey truckers concerned about a possible 12.5-cent fuel tax hike got a respite last week when the governor said he would not push it forward at this time.

Despite a lobbying push, truckers in Illinois probably will have to wait until at least 2004 for relief from increased licensing fees and sales tax charges, industry leaders said last week.

With new rules governing driver work hours looming, some state trucking executives said there is a great deal of uncertainty among drivers and fleets about what the new rules mean, but they intend to help members deal with it.

After an 11-month search, the Illinois Trucking Association announced it had hired George Billows as executive director.

The Maryland Transportation Authority approved a package of toll increases on several key trucking routes during an Oct. 21 meeting, but softened the impact by increasing discounts to users of its electronic toll-collection system.

The Maryland Transportation Authority took the first step toward raising tolls on several key trucking routes in that state at its Sept. 29 board meeting.

Bob Pitcher, formerly the director of American Trucking Associations’ state law department, has returned to the association as vice president for state laws, restoring an ATA function that had been lost in recent years, federation officials said.

A proposal by a state environmental agency in Tennessee to lower truck speed limits on interstate highways in some counties met with skepticism from trucking officials and governmental leaders.