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Moving company England Van Lines said it plans to retrofit its fleet with stop-start technology to allow drivers to coast through traffic lights without having to stop.

Gridlock in Washington, D.C., is increasingly creating gridlock on our highways. Failure to invest responsibly in infrastructure has led to higher costs for everyone — from trucking companies to consumers.

Legislating on Capitol Hill has often appeared impervious to reality in recent years. Grandstanding, posturing, score-settling and fleeing unpleasant choices have frequently trumped problem-solving for Main Street.

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly June 5 to suspend for one year changes to the hours-of-service restart provision implemented last year by federal truck safety regulators, and also approved a fiscal 2015 transportation spending bill.

Class 8 truck orders climbed 14.2% in May from a year earlier, ACT Research reported, providing analysts further evidence a gradual expansion of the nation’s truck fleet is under way.

Regional carriers are reframing the long-used interline practice by forming alliances where they share information, extend less-than-truckload service over a wider area and drive business growth, trucking executives said.

Transport Topics Publishing Group announced it has promoted Neil Abt to editorial director and Lorrie Grant to managing editor of the weekly newspaper.

Canada’s TransForce Inc. agreed to buy Transport America Inc. for $310 million in order to expand in the U.S. truckload sector, a move that could signal a resumption of the acquisition trend in that market.

Truckload carriers’ freight volumes accelerated in April, rising 4.6% compared with last year, and recorded a sequential improvement of 3.7%, which was a two-year high, American Trucking Associations reported.

The emergency closure of the wobbly Christina River Bridge in Wilmington, Delaware, last week turned shorthauls into long days for Sam Farruggio’s trucking fleet.