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The Long Beach, Calif., attorney’s office has rejected an appeal by the Natural Resources Defense Council of a clean trucks lawsuit settlement between the Port of Long Beach and American Trucking Associations.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region showed expansion in November, the Institute for Supply Chain Management-Chicago said Monday.

Oil opened the week holding near $76 a barrel as European equity markets fell, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Why do we have Transportation Worker Identification Credential cards?

Why is it so hard to get Washington to pay attention to transportation and infrastructure issues, no matter which party rules the roost at the White House and Capitol Hill?

This year has been tough on trucking profits, but a broad spectrum of accounting experts said there are many tax opportunities available to cushion the blow.

WASHINGTON — Several lawmakers, Department of Transportation officials and experts have  expressed concern with elements of a vehicle miles traveled tax, which some advocates tout as a replacement for the fuel tax. They also cautioned that a transition to VMT could be a slow process.

Representatives of several high-tech firms said they already are marketing, or soon will offer, systems designed to prevent motorists from texting and talking on cell phones while driving their vehicles.

Tolls could rise as much as 85% for trucks traveling across the Blue Water Bridge into Canada from Michigan as the state proposes to raise its rates higher than what Canada charges to make the reverse trip.

The heavy-duty U.S. truck fleet contracted slightly in the third quarter, shrinking back to its size in the first quarter of 2009, but used-truck sales volumes strengthened in the quarter, according to a Nov. 17 report by R.L. Polk.