Government

The ongoing dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over cross-border trucking is expected to be on the agenda when leaders of the two countries meet Wednesday in Washington.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is asking that its federal government abandon a plan to adopt a 2% biodiesel mandate for all diesel fuel sold in the country.

For the first time since its founding nearly a century ago, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking private investors to help it replace one of its facilities  — the aged Goethals Bridge that connects the New Jersey Turnpike to Staten Island and other points in New York.

President Obama will nominate FBI Deputy Director John Pistole to head the Transportation Security Administration, the White House said Monday.

Agents of the California Air Resources Board have fanned out to ticket truck operators who fail to comply with the state’s complicated schedule for reducing emissions from the small diesel engines that power transport refrigeration.

CHICAGO — The National Tank Truck Carriers for the first time has formally endorsed the use of trucks heavier than the current 80,000-pound weight limit.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a Senate subcommittee the Obama administration soon will unveil its plan to relaunch a cross-border trucking program along the U.S.-Mexico border.

LINTHICUM, Md. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration expects to issue new rules for medical examiners to address sleep apnea and other health conditions later this year, agency officials said.

Two U.S. senators last week unveiled a carbon emissions reduction bill observers said would significantly increase the cost of diesel fuel.