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In the trucking dispatch room of the future, the only sound is of cooling fans whirring inside computer casings.  Gone are the cubicles that once honeycombed the floor, as are the chattering dispatchers who once staffed them.

A group including motor carriers, businesses, several members of Congress and a conservative public interest legal foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s formal finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to public health.

State legislators in Wyoming have put into writing the tolling proposal for Interstate 80 that they have been talking about for some two years.

NEW YORK – After a trial run that began last spring, a section of Broadway in New York City will remain permanently closed to traffic.

A new economic index based on diesel fuel purchasing in the trucking industry fell in January after an increase in December, the index’s authors said.

John Ruan, founder of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, died Saturday, the company said. He was 96.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region grew this month at the fastest pace in four months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

The mid-Atlantic region is the latest area to be reminded of Mother Nature’s capriciousness and unrelenting fury, as a seemingly endless string of major snowstorms has dumped record amounts from Virginia to New Jersey.

The Senate began debate last week on a proposal that would inject nearly $20 billion into the ailing Highway Trust Fund and extend the current highway spending law as part of a new jobs bill.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Paccar Inc. officials last week officially unveiled the company’s first-ever heavy-duty diesel engine in North America, an advanced version of the power plant its European-based subsidiary has been producing for several years.