Government

Consumer confidence rose in November, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced a bill that would reauthorize a voluntary national and state-level grant and loan program to reduce diesel emissions.

I was reading your Nov. 1 issue and came across the article about the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, electric onboard recorders and hours of service. I read the article and felt I should put in my 2 cents’ worth on this issue.

When the next freight transportation capacity shortage makes itself known, whether it’s in the second half of next year or at the start of 2012, no one should say they weren’t warned well in advance.

Several bills introduced in Congress that would affect the trucking industry remain in limbo as the current “lame-duck” Congress races to finish its business by year-end, experts said.

Trucking industry officials said they question whether the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be able to complete its work on a new hours-of-service rule in time to comply with a court order.

An Arkansas committee that spent two years studying how to pay for road improvements has come up with a list of ways to raise revenue that includes indexing gas and diesel taxes to the state’s construction cost index.

Three trucking trade groups plan to file a lawsuit to block the release of trucking companies’ CSA safety performance data to the public this week, claiming that the action violates regulatory procedure, parties to the action said.