Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. o prevent potential gasoline supply shortages in the nation’s most populous state in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the California Air Resources Board said Sept. 9 it would allow the early sale of wintertime gasoline.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Many trucking companies based in — or operating in — Ohio could see their annual income tax liability increase significantly because of a new state tax law that is replacing the corporate franchise tax with a gross receipts tax, trucking officials said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. f the same type of consent decree approved by the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island were to be applied to other jurisdictions, trucking companies charged with emission violations could be required to spend millions of dollars to help make air cleaner in the areas where they operate, a federal official said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Under a measure in the recently signed highway funding act, states would be allowed to let companies install diesel-engine emission reducing electrification systems and other idle-reducing technologies at public rest areas along the nation’s interstate highway system.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Under a measure passed by Congress July 29, $100 million in funding would be made available to owners of older heavy-duty diesel trucks to help them meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s emission standards for new trucks that take effect in 2007.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said while total out-of-service citations declined for the first time in three years during its annual International Roadcheck, inspectors issued more seat-belt citations and took more trucks hauling hazardous materials off the road than a year earlier.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Rising asphalt prices have caused at least five states to delay or cancel road resurfacing projects, which could have an adverse effect on commercial vehicles, transportation officials said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Illinois Department of Transportation said it would begin full closures of the Kingery Expressway corridor, which includes sections of Interstates 80 and 94, on June 18 as crews construct a bridge in Chicago’s south suburbs during overnight hours.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>HYATTSTOWN, Md. — David Marshall, a driver for J.J. Hunt Trucking, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., shook his head as he was flagged out of the line at a weigh station here on Interstate 270 last week during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual three-day International Roadcheck.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Illinois Department of Transportation's announcement that it would begin full closures on some busy interstates south of Chicago beginning June 18 could significantly affect the operations of trucking companies in the area, a trucking industry official said.