The Transportation Security Administration said it was considering requests to delay criminal background checks for 3.5 million hazardous material drivers, while still working on guidelines for states and industry to meet.

The Transportation Security Administration said it was considering requests to delay criminal background checks for 3.5 million hazardous material drivers, while still working on guidelines for states and industry to meet.

As several major groups last week joined calls for the government to delay fast-approaching deadlines for criminal background checks of hazardous materials drivers, a spokesman for one agency said the government was weighing that issue.

Illinois has begun temporarily barring heavy trucks from using some rest stops along toll roads - even though motorists may still stop there - as the state's toll agency and vendors rebuild a series of on-highway "oasis" stops.

State officials and truckers in California said that wait times at the state’s three major ocean ports fell last week, as a law that penalizes terminal operators if they cause trucks to wait in line more than 30 minutes went into effect.

Two key national associations have called on the Transportation Security Administration to delay implementing a new requirement for criminal background checks before certifying commercial drivers to haul hazardous materials.

McLEAN, Va. — Truck manufacturers and fleets demonstrated new, high-tech safety features in their vehicles last week as part of the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative annual meeting here.

Representatives of state motor vehicle departments had many questions but got few answers about how the new rule requiring background checks for hazardous materials drivers would operate.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — American Trucking Associations unveiled a logo May 30 celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the trucking industry.

American Trucking Associations said it joined the California Trucking Association in opposing a section of the latest air quality plan for Southern California that would require electric forklift trucks and increase fees on port trucking.