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Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has introduced legislation that would extend until 2020 a federal statutory deadline that freight railroads install collision-avoidance technology.

President Obama has reappointed Deborah Hersman to a third term as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector rose in July, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday.

The Department of Transportation has issued emergency rules to keep parked rail cars from breaking loose, following last month’s crash of untethered rail cars in Quebec that killed almost 50 people.

Transportation spending dominated much of the political crossfire in Washington last week between President Obama and House Republicans.

Freight industry representatives asked lawmakers to confront urban transportation challenges, including congestion, intermodal connections and port infrastructure.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments next month concerning whether the U.S. government followed the law when it implemented the Compliance, Safety, Accountability ratings program.

Although new hours-of-service rules include changes that will alter the way trucking companies do business, carriers opting to approach them armed with change-management programs will find they have an edge when it comes to meeting the revised rules’ challenges.

A federal appeals court has again ruled that the government’s cross-border trucking pilot program, which allows approved Mexican fleets to operate throughout the United States, can go forward.

The bankruptcy filing by the private owner of four Alabama toll roads and the operator of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is not expected to have any immediate effects on freight haulers, officials said.