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WASHINGTON — Eliminating substance-impaired and distracted driving, as well as strengthening vehicle-occupant protection, were included on the National Transportation Safety Board’s  Most Wanted List of safety issues released last week.

Most publicly traded less-than-truckload operators are likely to report improved results when fourth-quarter earnings reports begin this week, but profit growth in other sectors is expected to be slower, analysts predict.

The trucking industry is addicted to hauling air. Trailers that ideally should be rolling down the road filled to capacity are burning precious fuel just to carry a couple of skids 1,000 miles.    

Heavy-duty truck sales climbed in December to the highest level in two years for the final month before the bonus depreciation tax benefit expired at year’s end.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, in a plea to Congress to produce a long-term transportation funding plan, said the crises is so severe that the Highway Trust Fund may run out of money by August.

When Craig Young started thinking about building a maintenance shop at his Canton, Ohio-based dealership to service natural-gas vehicles, he sought advice from the fire department.

UPS Inc. finished another part of its Teamsters contract last week when Freight unit workers approved by a wide margin a five-year agreement, making them the best-paid drivers in the less-than-truckload industry, the union said.

Transport Topics Publishing Group has announced the launch of Truck Fleet Management, a magazine and website focused on the ownership and operation of vocational, public, utility and other diversified commercial fleets.

American Trucking Associations announced the departure of Howard Abramson as publisher and editorial director of Transport Topics Publishing Group and the appointment of Jeff Mason to head up the publishing unit.